Issue 1881085
Created on 2008-01-28 11:35 by epaepa, last changed 2016-06-26 23:49 by rouilj.
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| msg2514 | Author: [hidden] (epaepa) | Date: 2008-01-28 11:35 | |
The HTML generated by roundup contains
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
This way of closing an open element is okay in XHTML but not in plain old HTML. The doctype declaration says
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
so you need to use HTML-style closing tags, or else change the doctype to indicate XHTML.
There are some other validation errors - if you would like to catch them I suggest the Firefox validator plugin <http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/> which is really cool.
This applies to roundup-1.3.3.
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| msg2515 | Author: [hidden] (anonymous) | Date: 2008-02-11 16:45 | |
Logged In: NO I can recommend the "Web Developer Toolbar" along with "FireBug". Together, they provide really good ways to drill down on any web site bugs, or try out quick fixes. |
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| msg2516 | Author: [hidden] (anonymous) | Date: 2008-02-12 21:31 | |
Logged In: NO (Richard here) Have those installed, doesn't help the problem - the problem is us attempting to produce both HTML and XHTML. Not sure what the solution is. |
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| msg2517 | Author: [hidden] (tobias-herp) | Date: 2008-02-17 14:39 | |
This still applies to Roundup 1.4.2. I can think of two possible solutions: 1) for XHTML output, check for templates with .xhtml extension first 2) provide conversion scripts to convert all templates from xhtml to html and vice versa, based e.g. on sgmllib.SGMLParser. A script could read the MAIN_TEMPLATES setting from config.ini and fix the templates accordingly. I'd prefer the 2nd version, since otherwise several templates would need to be duplicated. |
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| msg2518 | Author: [hidden] (anonymous) | Date: 2008-02-17 20:37 | |
Logged In: NO Even when generating XHTML, it is still legal to use the old <a></a> way of writing an empty element. So I'd suggest as a quick fix changing the code to write that instead of <a/>. Then it will be well-formed whatever the doctype declaration has. |
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| msg3603 | Author: [hidden] (tobias-herp) | Date: 2009-02-26 20:53 | |
Problem is, <meta ...></meta> is in HTML as illegal as <meta .../>. For those singleton tags, there is IMO no way of generating code which validates for HTML /and/ XHTML. My proposal: - a Python script roundup-fixtemplates.py which reads the config setting and changes (if told to) the templates accordingly - the script would change the templates in-place and create backups (.html~, .html~2) if desired - would the script need to read/write the checksum line? (What purpose does this fulfill anyway?) |
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| msg3604 | Author: [hidden] (stefan) | Date: 2009-02-26 21:29 | |
As a short-term (and easy) fix, I'd suggest we adjust all doctype declarations to be XHTML, not HTML4 (and make xhtml the default output). Then, if users insist in using that old standard that is HTML4, we can point them to some documentation explaining what needs to be fixed in the templates. |
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| msg3605 | Author: [hidden] (richard) | Date: 2009-02-27 03:07 | |
Problem is that browser support for XHTML is abysmal so I'd resist moving from HTML to XHTML .I would support moving the other way. It's been years since XHTML support was added to Roundup and browser support just isn't there to justify it. |
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| msg3606 | Author: [hidden] (stefan) | Date: 2009-02-27 06:32 | |
OK, this is a fair point. And since this isn't about taking away functionality, but only what HTML version to support through the builtin templates, I think the decision is easy. Let's fully convert them to HTML4. People can manually correct their own version if they want XHTML. |
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| msg5642 | Author: [hidden] (rouilj) | Date: 2016-06-26 23:48 | |
At this point I think xhtml is dead right? Should we be targeting html5. I am not sure if we need to support html4 and html5 as the type of output or remove 4 and xhtml and just target html5? |
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2016-06-26 23:49:04 | rouilj | set | components: + Web interface, - Mail interface |
| 2016-06-26 23:48:47 | rouilj | set | nosy:
+ rouilj messages: + msg5642 |
| 2009-02-27 06:32:52 | stefan | set | messages: + msg3606 |
| 2009-02-27 03:07:56 | richard | set | messages: + msg3605 |
| 2009-02-26 21:29:22 | stefan | set | nosy:
+ stefan messages: + msg3604 |
| 2009-02-26 20:53:20 | tobias-herp | set | messages: + msg3603 |
| 2008-01-28 11:35:43 | epaepa | create | |