I've only used Expression Engine and Wordpress but they'll output whatever
HTML you put into your templates so how standards-friendly is entirely up
to the user and there is no limitations imposed by the CMS.
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:01:32 +1000, Rick Lecoat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi;
On 13/8/07 (11:57) John said:
I've only used Expression Engine and Wordpress but they'll output whatever
HTML you put into your templates so how standards-friendly is entirely up
to the user and there is no limitations imposed by the CMS.
That's good to know John, thanks.
I was concerned
Rick,
Yes, you can make a Wordpress, Expression Engine, Textpattern,
MovableType, etc. blog COMPLETELY validate. Example:
http://www.christianmontoya.com/
You can even make a Wordpress blog (and probably the others) output
valid HTML 4 instead of XHTML. Tutorial:
Most HTML tags get written into your template by you. There's only a few
functions I can think of that output tags as well as a content and most of
the time, it's perfectly valid HTML.
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:24:36 +1000, Rick Lecoat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On 13/8/07 (11:57) John said:
On 13/8/07 (13:01) Christian said:
You can even make a Wordpress blog (and probably the others) output
valid HTML 4 instead of XHTML. Tutorial:
http://www.christianmontoya.com/2006/02/13/serve-your-weblog-as-html-401/
That's a really useful tutorial Christian, thanks.
One question though: On
Rick, PHP shouldn't affect IE at all because it gets calculated on
the server, so by the time the page gets to the browser, it's 100%
HTML/XHTML/whatever - no PHP is seen on the client-side at all.
Cheers,
C
Caitlin Rowley, B. Mus. (Hons), Gr. Dip. Design
Composer, musicologist, web
...
One question though: On your tutorial page, you appear to put some PHP
code above the doctype in order to remove any instance of self-closing
tags. Specifically:
...
Does this not throw Explorer into quirks mode? I was under the
impression that anything (other than whitespace, maybe)
On 13/8/07 (15:27) minim said:
Rick, PHP shouldn't affect IE at all because it gets calculated on
the server, so by the time the page gets to the browser, it's 100%
HTML/XHTML/whatever - no PHP is seen on the client-side at all.
Cheers,
C
A ha. Good to know. Thanks.
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Rick Lecoat
