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03-30-2008, 03:09 PM
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Question about xHTML validation...
How closely are you coders paying attention to xhtml validation?
The reason I ask is, vB is xHTML compliant pretty much right out of the box. I checked my test forum yesterday, and it is compliant. However, as soon as I added a side column to it, there were numerous errors, so I took it off, and it passed validation. Then I added another mod to see what would happen, and it failed validation. Now, I never paid attention to xhtml validation in the past. This is a very recent thing for me. But now that I'm into it, I can't let go of it, lol. So I ask again - how many of you are concerned with xhtml compliance? Do you try to get your code to validate? Same question to the designers - are you concerned with xhtml compliance and do you try to get your skins/styles to validate? 
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03-30-2008, 03:13 PM
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"vB is xHTML compliant pretty much right out of the box" is wrong, sorry to say. I have reported a few of them lately and they have been fixed for the upcoming RC2. Granted, it is only a few of them, but there are a few that they had to work around to do. I have been testing my hacks lately for validation, so they will be up to snuff soon.
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03-30-2008, 03:52 PM
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THANK YOU Boofo! I wondered if anyone would challenge that statement. I said on another forum that vB does not always validate out of the box and was told I was wrong.
It doesn't, you're right. I've had 2 installation that didn't validate - and that was before I did anything at all to them, simply installed them. Glad to know that you're working on your hacks. Sorry to say that most of my styles don't validate. I've always been an old hat html user, and didn't care much about xhtml til now. Hopefully my future designs will validate.
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#4
03-30-2008, 03:58 PM
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The validation bug is catching. I am bound and determined to have my site 100% validated. So far I am on track. With the release of RC2, that will fix the search area. Now all I have to do is rip the postbit apart as I have heavily modded it and have got quite a few errors in it.
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03-30-2008, 04:50 PM
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Same here. My forum is horrible as is my homepage. I'm working on my forum, one error at a time. I get confused as to where to find the errors tho - row 289, column 7?? There has to be an easier way.
Right now I'm using Wordpress for a homepage, but am changing to Joomla, which is xhtml compliant, and I'm taking my time setting it up, determined to keep it that way!
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03-30-2008, 04:56 PM
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If you get joomla working, let me know as I want to get it installed, too. What's great about validation is it can say you have 75 errors (for example) and 1 correction can clear up quite a few of those errors. My homepage is validated as well as most of the site now.
When you validate a page, click the Show Source box and it will make a link with the line number so you can look at the error.
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#7
03-30-2008, 05:31 PM
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Oh Joomla works great! I'm just having a hard time learning it.
Wordpress is SO much easier, yet Joomla has so many more features, and validates away. Plus Joomla requires that anyone designing a template for their product must validate. However they don't require the same for anyone coding an add-on. Strange but true. I had to remove 2 of their add-ons because they threw my validation off. grrrrrrrrrr...
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#8
03-30-2008, 06:07 PM
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Do you have Joomla up and running? I'd like to check it out if you do.
Validating add-ons is easier than you think. A lot if it is simple syntax type errors.
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#9
03-30-2008, 07:45 PM
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Sorry for the delay, these pain pills knock me out.
Yep I do have it up and running. Look for a pm.
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