07312005 1114 GMT-5 Hey Bob, some clients just arent worth having. I had this client once similar to your current one. "Do this and that but dont touch anything at all!" was pretty much what they said. "We want speed. Make it load faster. Make search engines see our pages. Fix these errors on our pages. But DONT TOUCH ANYTHING. CHANGE NOTHING!" What crazy nut jobs.
You said Tidy would not not put in closing tags. Well, if they need them, then they must have them to be valid. Right? Just out of curiosity, if you have a server to test on, what happens when you remove all that blank space, all those spaces? Probably nothing, unless they have to do with the tables. Remove all that stuff, make it nice a neat. If they say something to you about it, politely ask, "...and you knowledge of my job is what?" Wade On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 16:35 +0100, Bob wrote: > Hi Eric, > I've had Tidy for some time now, which I've added as a user tool in EditPlus. > The only snag is that all these pages I'm doing are include files. > Some are part full of tables and the closing tags are on other pages. > > To make it worse, the client insists that I don't change the actual layout of > the html text, unless necessary to make it validate. > There are multiple spaces everywhere, around every tag, attibute, links etc. > No quoted attributes and most tags in uppercase. > 4 to 8 blank lines between everything. > > All spaces that don't affect W3C Transition validation must be left alone. > Tidy is great, but even playing with the configure file, I can't stop it > putting in missing closing tags, and it strips out all muliple spaces and > blank lines. > > That's why I thought I'd have a go at writing a custom php program, at least > to save me typing in every correction. > > It would be a lot easier to rewrite the whole lot, then cut and paste their > content in, but they went bananas when I did this. > The tables are nested to an unbelievable depth, some just to get a border and > padding, but I can't remove any. > > The first homepage draft I did was a completely tableless design, clean > markup, everything in a common style sheet, looking identical, but they > couldn't handle it. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 10:13 AM > Subject: Re: [php-list] Lowercase problem > > > the "HTML-tidy.exe" program should do it, change upper case tags to lower > > case > > that w3.org had it is a free program, > > > > http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/ > > > > > Community email addresses: > Post message: [email protected] > Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Shortcut URL to this page: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12h1m8jfp/M=362335.6886445.7839731.1510227/D=groups/S=1705005703:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1122834086/A=2894361/R=0/SIG=13jmebhbo/*http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/education/digitaldivide/?source=YAHOO&cmpgn=GRP&RTP=http://groups.yahoo.com/";>In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Community email addresses: Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shortcut URL to this page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
