On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 12:01 -0500, Alan Langford wrote: > I have recently gone through the process of converting a fairly large > e-commerce site from HTML to XHTML (transitional). Here's what I learned: > > -- FireFox has a plug-in that embeds the Tidy validator in it. This makes > the process of finding problems dead easy (and that little green checkmark > in the status line is much cooler than a red X).
I use the firebug and webdev extensions all the time, they make validation and debugging a breeze. <snip /> > > On the downside: > -- My old JS / ECMAScript based drop-down menu code failed to run. Open > source alternatives were difficult to find (I wound up using "creditware" > from twinhelix.com until I can get my own code running). Of course in the > cage of phpgw, that' not a big problem. > I use css based menus these days, heaps easier to manange. There is even a htc file to implement :hover for IE < 7 :) > There's no pressing reason that forces anyone to move to XHTML, but in my > experience it was well worth the effort and I would recommend it in most > cases. I think it encourages you to review your markup and to modernize things. We have some pretty old templates, time to move forward and xhtml is a way of doing this. Cheers Dave -- Dave Hall (aka skwashd) API Coordinator phpGroupWare +-------------------------------------+-------------------------------+ | e [EMAIL PROTECTED] | w phpgroupware.org | | j [EMAIL PROTECTED] | aim skwashd | | icq 278064022 | msn [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | sip [EMAIL PROTECTED] | y! skwashd | +-------------------------------------+-------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Phpgroupware-developers mailing list Phpgroupware-developers@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/phpgroupware-developers
