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  • MarkMark Vanilla Staff
    http://www.lipsum.com/
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper New
    I stand corrected. Sorry. I should probably stop bugging you guys and go to bed.
    I dont understand the concept behind validity and semanticness of markup but if it's worth anything atall it looks better than the existing stuff. It doesnt validate though (if it's even meant to)
  • ithcyithcy New
    omg i hax denied's account

    and yeah, the source looks good to me, but i'm not such an authority on semanticiousness either
  • bshultzbshultz
    Looks much nicer. A few comments on my part: 1. "<a name="pgtop"></a>" should be <p><a name="pgtop"></a></p> or something along those lines. XHTML isn't a fan of content not in an element like <p> or <h*>. 2. The tag "<u>" is depreciated in XHTML. You'd be better off using a "<span>" in this case, with the underline set by css. 3. "<input ...>" should be closed as follows: "<input ... />". Fixing up those three issues gets it validated tentatively as XHTML strict.
  • gigingergiginger New
    edited February 2006
    I think I've made it validate now....

    albeit tentatively.

    Does that help?

    EDIT: I started fiddling and I've fucked it up. My bad.

    EDIT EDIT: Got it back to tentative.
  • aloiciousaloicious
    You need one of these: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-guessing
  • placenamehereplacenamehere
    1. "<a name="pgtop"></a>" should be <p><a name="pgtop"></a></p> or something along those lines. XHTML isn't a fan of content not in an element like <p> or <h*>. um.. why use name at all instead of id... are you worried about browsers that don't understand id in this context? (sorry for poking into the conversation even though I don't have the time to do a full review of the template)
  • ithcyithcy New
    can an id be used as an anchor target? i did not know that.
  • gigingergiginger New
    edited February 2006
    Got it.

    Validation.

    Hope I've been of help :)
  • placenamehereplacenamehere
    edited February 2006
    itchy: yes... with the benefit of not needing to litter your page with empty <a>s try this: http://www.bambambambambam.co.uk/comments.html#Header
  • ithcyithcy New
    awesome. thanks.

    *is a bit rusty
  • SevenupcanSevenupcan
    edited February 2006
    It's looking a lot cleaner. Good job.

    I was working on a design for my own vanilla forum and I started the XHTML from scratch, I wondered if any of it might be of use to you/us? It's not finished (ie missing a lot of functional elements) and because I'm making it from scratch I used my own class and id names, just habit.

    http://slogmeat.com/downloads/lussumo-index.html
  • MarkMark Vanilla Staff
    edited February 2006
    Nice work, giginger :)

    And thanks for the feedback, everyone.

    Next up: index page
  • gigingergiginger New
    Does this help as a start?

    I haven't got the order in there.
  • aloiciousaloicious
    giginger: I'd make the headers, you know, header elements.
  • DeniedDenied New
    It's funny how quickly this thread dropped off.
  • SpookyETSpookyET
    Updates?
  • MarkMark Vanilla Staff
    http://lussumo.com/swell/41/20060225-Major-SVN-Changes/
  • SpookyETSpookyET
    That is good to know. I hope it becomes stable again. I am in need of a forum.
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper New
    You can still grab 0.9.2.6 from the homepage you know? You should really be using that on a production forum anyway.
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