From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Tremer To: development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: Using xhtml strict or html5 for the web gui ? Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 20:14:24 +0100 Message-ID: <1392232464.5657.7.camel@rice-oxley.tremer.info> In-Reply-To: <52FA6B4E.2080003@i100.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============4630239399447707525==" List-Id: --===============4630239399447707525== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi Alf, indeed the quality of the generated HTML of the CGI scripts is a mess. That is one of the main reasons, why we decided to ditch the webUI as it is now and rewrite it from scratch in IPFire 3 in Python. The new theme that comes with IPFire 2.15 (next branch) comes with the HTML5 doctype and a lot of code has been improved, but I think we are still far away from valid output. I would welcome any patches that fix the generated HTML, but I don't think that someone should put too much effort in it and rewrite bigger chunks of code. -Michael On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 19:26 +0100, Alf Høgemark wrote: > Hi > > I was trying to validate the html pages of the web GUI of Ipfire. > Although having pages that passes a validator is not absolutely > requried, I think it makes styling easier, and it makes > good sense to make sure table cells and rows are properly closed etc > etc. It is a kind of indicator of code quality. > > I then noticed that the ipfire web GUI is using the doctype for xhtml > strict. > > But the actual html itself seems to be a bit old style, with lots of > align, valign attributes on tags, which will not validate > as xhtml, even if all the tags are properly closed. > > Have you considered going for "html5" doctype ? > Using html5, I think it would require a lot less cleanup to make the > pages validate. > > And when a page validates, it makes it easier to test the page using a > validator after you make code changes, to make sure it still validates. > > > Regards > Alf Høgemark > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > Development(a)lists.ipfire.org > http://lists.ipfire.org/mailman/listinfo/development --===============4630239399447707525==--