On Aug 13, 2008, at 12:00 AM, 8bits Media wrote:
I think it would be worth your while to go and check out Magento -
http://www.magentocommerce.com/
The makers of this product have done a great job of making it
standards compliant, as well as very usable. We're in the process of
integrating it into a new project.
I'd been learning Magento since beta 1, guess I will add my 2 cents.
Magento is very impressive, and you can make your magento store as
compliant as it can be with its very flexible, a-bit-daunting template
system. But to say magento is standards compliant is totally off-key
in my opinion. The first template they came out, was very impressive
for an open source, now, with each releases, many files got updated
and you see inline styles, excessive use of div classes. I don't think
Varien continues promoting Magento as Standards Compliant anymore.
Still, I applause the work. With the browsers' short-comings, and the
fact that we still have to support IE6, I think it's not easy to make
a semantically sound and structurally clean template that is used by
many store owners who have no knowledge of CSS and HTML (clearly this
wasn't the intention from the developer). Taking this into
consideration, I think perhaps the excessive use of div classes is the
way to go to support majority of users. Alas!
Example of its template
<div class="category">
<div class="head>
<h2>heading 2</h2>
</div>
<div class="pager">
<div class="toolbar">
<ul>
<li>list</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="listing">
<table>....</table>
</div>
</div>
When you look at its iestyle.css, very clean, not many hacking for
ie6. I think the use of wrapping each block in a div set helps a lot.
A theme I was working: http://tinyurl.com/6xdecp
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