[Zope] Zope HTML Quality

[Christopher Petrilli]

On 2/4/00 7:08 AM, Jacob Gorm Hansen at jg@ioi.dk wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I noticed that the HTML generated by the Zope management interface is
> rather low quality, with lots of color,align, etc. attributes (which are
> deprecated in favor of CSS), and unclosed option tags etc.

Yes, and CSS has 100x the problems of cross-platform compliance,
unfortunately.  Netscape only implements some .05% of the standard, and that
piece is wrong :-)  Having said that, we agree that CSS is definitely
favorable, but right now it's a bit shakey.

> Of course I can fix this myself in my local Zope, but are there any
> plans to aim for, say, XHTML compliance? Keeping up with standards makes
> more sense  than staying 100% compatible with obsolete browsers IMHO.

Perhaps you could provide us a patch set that fixes the current situation to
replace it all with CSS?  That would be a start.  As for XHTML/etc we're
waiting for more implementations before chasing theoretical standards (ISO
is the "standard" for networking, but how many companies use it?)  We are
heavily investing in Mozilla and trying to use XUL to develop a much richer
interface.  However, we can only take a subset of:

    * Netscape 4.x on Mac, PC, UNIX
    * IE 4.x/5.x on Mac, PC

The intersection is what we have to follow.

Chris
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