Thanks Steve! The Firefox extensions will be useful (providing I
understand what they do) - I also have HTML-Kit which I haven't used for
ages. I recently downloaded a new version but have yet to find out how
to put HTML Tidy into it again.
Could I have a link to your template please?
John
Steve Olive wrote:
I would recommend using the XHTML 1.0 Transitional DTD instead of HTML
4.01 - for the simple reason that there is a bit more tolerance for
user-friendly options but you are following the XML standards of lower
case tags and attributes, all tags being closed, preferably CSS for
positioning but tables can be used when you just can't quite get that
alignment, etc
Do the validation of your web pages - Mozilla Firefox Extensions can
help with this - and your pages can be easily updated to a XHTML 1.0
Strict DTD. You could even look at moving to XHTML 1.1 Strict DTD, or
whatever the current standard has moved too, when you develop your
skills and understanding.
The Mozilla Firefox extensions (all under the developer section) I use
to help with validation are:
TAW3
View formatted source
View Rendered Source Chart
Web Developer
HTML Validator (uses HTMLTidy)
I recommend these to all the students I teach web design and I even
give the students an XHTML template that uses CSS (embedded to keep it
all together but that is easily converted to a linked CSS) to break
the page up into Header, Horizontal Nav Bar, Left Nav Bar, Body, Right
Ads Area and Footer. This template validates as XHTML 1.0
Transitional, Valid CSS and WAI. I can provide a link if you are
interested John.
Steve
On 18/02/2006, at 11:18 AM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote:
The choice of Transitional vs. Strict DTD doesn't affect tolerance
towards CSS - only html. A few less visitor-friendly and/or purely
presentational html elements are not accepted as part of Strict. The
html validator will tell you which ones...
If you want a _just a little_ bit of tolerance, then just avoid using an
xhtml DTD until you know the _whole_ difference between html and xhtml.
That may take some time, so just use HTML 4.01 Strict for now, and make
sure the source-code is all valid.
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