Hello vim-dev, I really liked the "Convert to HTML" function in gvim, but wished that it could be a little more "correct" in terms of the w3 standard. So I wrote a patch. Here is an outline of what I have done:
- The script used to only declare a <!DOCTYPE> if CSS was enabled (html_use_css). All (X)HTML documents parsed by a browser should contain a doctype. I modified the script so as to always include a doctype. - You cannot put <font> tags in a <pre> according to w3, so I have forced html_no_pre if CSS is disabled. The original value of html_no_pre is restored when execution 2html.vim is complete. - I have changed DOCTYPE's (both HTML/XHTML) to transitional because (X)HTML strict disallows tags like bgcolor, link, alink and vlink in the <body> tag. - I removed <p>'s because you cannot contain a <span> in a <p> according to w3. An unstyled <p> would make no difference in this case anyway. I have tested my work on opera 9.01 and Mozilla 1.7.13 on an OpenBSD 4.0-beta snapshot(about 2 weeks old), and all pages seem to look identical to before my modifications, but this time they pass w3's validation (http://validator.w3.org). So... I went forth and emailed a patch to the maintainer (bram@), who casted his doubt as to whether this was the right thing to do, as browsers usually don't support w3's standards, and also beacuse I have only tested on 2 browsers. He reccommended I post a patch to vim-dev@ asking for testing and opinions, so here I am. Here is the patch: http://arameus.net/users/edd/vim-test/2html.vim.diff Also in the same directory you will see the output of my tests, please test them on other browsers. I am completely new to your development community (but I've been using vim for many years), so I aplogize if I have broken any coding style rules/other rules. =) Best Regards Edd
