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joomla.org does not validate!!!
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 7:02 am
by calorifer
Re: joomla.org does not validate!!!
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 9:14 am
by vavroom
Thanks for your feedback. We *are* aware we don't validate. And we *are* working on it. That's one of the reason I was brought on board last week
The aim is to be WCAG Priority 2 compliant by version 1.2. xHTML (transitional) and CSS compliance are also in the book in the not too distant future.
There is a fair bit to fix in the code, and right now the priority is to get a first release of Joomla! going.
But we've established a plan of attack
Hopefully it won't be too long before we have an engine that generates properly marked up and organised, semantically correct content. Once that happens, we're a good ways ahead. After that, well, we have to go through each content item (yikes!) and correct the "bad" markup produced by WYSIWYG editors. This is, as you can imagine, less of a priority. There always is a fight between users wanting the newest bestest version to be released yesterday, and users wanting to improve on what's already there, etc...
Come see us in the Standards, Usability & Accessibility forum, would love usable comments and discussions
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/board,142.0.html
Re: joomla.org does not validate!!!
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 6:05 pm
by calorifer
k, i just wanted to give you a heads up seeing that quite some time passed since the site is up and no changes had been done.
Re: joomla.org does not validate!!!
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 9:09 pm
by vavroom
And it will be some more time before it does.
Re: joomla.org does not validate!!!
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 8:30 pm
by Jaykul
It's getting worse instead of better.
Can you at least fix the tag in
demo.joomla.org which is supposed to be a tag?
I mean, it would be great if someone would also replace mosimage with a joomimage (or something that produces valid xhtml) so that you didn't have
s inside
s when you put an image in the page ... then at least the demo page would validate.
Re: joomla.org does not validate!!!
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 8:55 pm
by rvalerob
Hey, guys. There's no need to be so irritatingly insistent. I think everyone else understands the situation and being so reproachfully demanding is a bit uncomfortable for the rest of users (for me at least).
Let's give them a break.
All the best
ruben
Re: joomla.org does not validate!!!
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 9:44 pm
by vavroom
Jaykul wrote:Can you at least fix the tag in demo.joomla.org which is supposed to be a tag?
Hmmm. I don't see a problem with the tag on demo.joomla.org. See for yourself (from the source of demo.joomla.org):
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<head>
<title>Joomla! Demo Site - Home</title>
<meta name="description" content="Joomla - the dynamic portal engine and content management system" />
<meta name="keywords" content="Joomla, joomla" />
<meta name="Generator" content="Joomla! - Copyright (C) 2005 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved." />
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://demo.joomla.org/images/favicon.ico" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<link href="http://demo.joomla.org/templates/rhuk_solarflare_ii/css/template_css.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
</head>
Jaykul wrote:I mean, it would be great if someone would also replace mosimage with a joomimage (or something that produces valid xhtml) so that you didn't have
s inside
s when you put an image in the page ... then at least the demo page would validate.
The demo page (along with the entire joomla site, will validate when when joomla reaches the point of producing compliant output. I refer you to our accessibility statement for a better idea of what is going on:
http://help.joomla.org/content/view/805/125/@ ruben, thank you for your support.
Re: joomla.org does not validate!!!
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 11:04 pm
by Jaykul
No breaks from me. The rest of us have to do this work every time we do a website to please customers that want their sites to validate, so why shouldn't the Joomla
team hear it from
their customers?
Anyway, you're right, the tag was just an artifact of the "madeyourweb" theme ... so, sorry to bother you with that, the demo site validates now, except when it has a {mosimage} on it.
Re: joomla.org does not validate!!!
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 1:36 am
by stingrey
Jaykul wrote:Can you at least fix the tag in demo.joomla.org which is supposed to be a tag?
A known bug in 1.0.1 that has been resolved in SVN and will be available in 1.0.2