[development] Administration Survey: Theme improvements, theme help system, theme mailing list

[Kieran Lal]

On Dec 1, 2005, at 8:05 AM, Andre Molnar wrote:

> Kieran Lal wrote:
>> On Dec 1, 2005, at 7:40 AM, andre wrote:
>>> Notwithstanding the 'potential' problems with sending xhtml as  
>>> text/html - see: http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml (or google  
>>> for similar documents) - the idea is to encourage the creation of  
>>> valid markup - and have all markup passed through a validator  
>>> first (which eliminates the 'real' problems).
>>>
>>>
>>> On that note - it might be a good idea to include links to pages  
>>> like: http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml part of the best  
>>> practices documentation.
>>>
>> Can we resolve these issues and make solid recommendations I can  
>> include in the documentation?
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> IMHO the solid recommendation is -
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> Make sure to include a doc type declaration in your theme.

Can you give a basic explanation of doc types, with appropriate  
link,  and where this is defined in the theme?
>
> VALIDATE no matter what - both your (x)html and your css.
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> Which standard the developer uses to validate is up to the  
> developer - BUT - best practice suggestion is to validate XHTML 1.0  
> Strict.

I update the title to indicate XHTML 1.0 Strict.
>
> Include links to http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/#validators and  
> optionally information about XHTML so theme developers can make an  
> informed decision when choosing their doc type.

I have these two.  I think that is enough.  What do you think?
# Before you start modifying your CSS to fix your bugs it is  
important to ensure you are styling valid HTML or XHTML. There is a  
web validator is built into the Firefox Web Developer toolbar.
# A more advanced tool for analyzing HTML pages for looking over  
code, spotting errors is the Watchfire WebXACT tool.

Thanks for all your help.

Kieran

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