[themes] Customizing themes for node types, terms, sections, paths, and front page

[Larry Garfield]

What about simply a "Browser compatibility issues" page in the themes
handbook that gets linked from wherever seems logical.  It would then
contain things like "IE sucks so send as text/html even if your code is
valid XHTML", "IE sucks and quirks mode is evil so you have to omit the
XML declaration and just have the doctype", etc.  (Yeah, I figure it will
read like a laundry list of IE bugs, but that is the current web
landscape.)

It could link to some external site for more info (there's lots of them),
but it could be good to flag a few of the more common issues Drupalers run
into, even if they're not Drupal-specific or Drupal-caused.  People
writing a Drupal theme will likely look at Drupal first, thinking it's
something Drupal-weird, even if wrongly.

-- 
Larry Garfield

On Thu, April 6, 2006 11:44 am, Adrian Simmons said:
> Erik Mallinson wrote:
>> Perhaps a
>> reference to it on another page would be appropriate?
> I'm not sure. Doctypes and IE bugs are obviously of interest to Drupal
> themers, but they aren't actually anything to do with Drupal. At some
> point
> you need to draw a line between documenting Drupal and documenting how to
> write html in the current browser landscape.
>
> Kieran: I removed the paragraph about doctypes.
>
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> Adrian Simmons (aka adrinux) <http://adrinux.perlucida.com>
> e-mail <mailto:adrinux at perlucida.com>
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