Re: [WSG] LOCAL XHTML TESTING - HOW TO DO IT?
Joey said the following on 12/12/2004 7:52 AM: Download Web Developer Toolbar for firefox for local validating. http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/ Then you can see a tool under Tools called Validate Local HTML that should help you out a bit. Hope this helps Joey Also while you're at downloading Firefox/Mozilla Extensions, get the HTML Validator (based on Tidy) from http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/ Robert ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] LOCAL XHTML TESTING - HOW TO DO IT?
For serious testing install web server locally. There is for example easyphp.org (and many others) that install and configure Apache, PHP, MySQL with almost one click. Then you can configure Apache to send .xhtml files as application/xhtml+xml or use PHP for that. httpd.conf: AddType application/xhtml+xml .xhtml or each file: ?php header(Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml);? Once you have proper content-type set browsers (except IE ofcourse) will do basic validation of document - requiring that your document is well-formed XML (XHTML). -- regards, Kornel Lesiski ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] LOCAL XHTML TESTING - HOW TO DO IT?
Download Web Developer Toolbar for firefox for local validating. http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/ Then you can see a tool under Tools called Validate Local HTML that should help you out a bit. Hope this helps Joey Charles Slack wrote: LOCAL XHTML TESTING - HOW TO DO IT? Hi, I'm an experienced real time software engineer getting involved in Web design. I have done a lot of reading, both books and web pages and, after a lot of heart searching, have arrived at the following strategy for developing web pages: 1. Develop and test the site initially using an XHTML 1.0 strict DOCTYPE until I have the site working to my satisfaction. This will be done locally on my PC (I will not upload the site). I hope that this will set me on the right road to producing well formed XHTML code which will be ready when more browsers (IE) support XHTML. I intend to follow the W3C compatibility rules (Annex C) to make sure that my XHTML is backwards compatible with HTML. 2. I realise that there are difficulties presenting XHTML to some browsers (IE in particular) and that I will end up with the browser treating my code as HTML in quirks mode. For that reason I intend to change to HTML 4.01 strict DOCTYPE before going live and carrying out validation and final testing. That's the background. The question is what is the best way of testing and validating my XHTML code locally? I am not very clear how browsers, validators/linters, Tidy etc manage doctypes when looking at code. How can I be sure that they are treating the code as XHTML 1.0 strict and not HTML? Can anyone point me at any interesting sites or offer any suggestions? Thanks, Charlie ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] LOCAL XHTML TESTING - HOW TO DO IT?
On 12 dec 2004, at 14.15, Charles Slack wrote: LOCAL XHTML TESTING - HOW TO DO IT? An easy way to check how Mozilla based browsers handle it is to change the file extension of your XHTML documents from .html to .xhtml. This will make Mozilla/Firefox treat it as application/xhtml+xml (check View Page Info), and alert you of any well-formedness errors. /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
