[consulting] New Premium Drupal Theme - ZincOut

[Jeff]

Did either of you actually turn Javascript off and reload the site?  
I'd have thought it fairly common knowledge that Superfish menus  
degrade without JS, relying on the semantic and validating <ul>  
foundations of the underlying menu markup to do the work when only CSS  
is available.

George, if you can put together a site like the demo in 10 minutes or  
so, please get in touch with me asap, we can make you rich :)

I'm not saying this demo site or the theme are earth shattering and I  
have no connection with fordrupal themes whatsoever (never heard of  
them or their founders before), nor do I have the need to ever buy a  
theme, but honestly George, it feels like you have other reasons for  
being harsh on this.

Anyway, of more interest to me is Brian's xhtml comment — is this a  
server config issue? How do you know it's not sending it as  
application/xhtml+xml? I thought the browser looked at the doctype in  
the markup?

"Future validation headaches" — are you refering to html 5? Isn't it  
realistic to think that xhtml is going to be supported until half the  
people on this list have retired, given the ongoing infestation of  
Internet Explorer and its associated lack of speed of improvement? In  
other words, isn't the web moving so slowly (because of IE and the  
w3c) that xhtml is going to be around for many years yet? Drupal.org  
and Garland are both xhtml.

Jeff


On 09/03/2009, at 11:46 PM, Brian Vuyk wrote:

> That is a fairly attractive theme visually. However, George makes some
> good points about it w.r.t the JS menus.
>
> Why XHTML? Your server isn't sending the site as application/xhtml 
> +xml,
> so the user is getting none of the benefits of XHTML with all the  
> future
> validation headaches.
>
> Brian