Standards

[stephencarr]

I have been monkeying around with the Mollio-Beat template and I have quickly realised that pages don't come close to validating against w3c. I was wondering if there is any drive to keep these pages valid at all?

One of the more proliffic problems is the use of CSS classes and IDs. Technically an ID should appear once on a page, you can re-declare a class many times but not an ID, it should be unique.

Case in point; link_summary.tpl is looped for each of the stories so it should not have any IDs in it as they will be duplicated for each story. The containers should be IDs and then there should be classes and subclasses for the looped content.

There are lots of other little problems mainly with XHMTL tags not being closed, these would be easier to fix. The main headache it seems is the CSS being rather corrupt. I would be glad to help out fixing/advising for next release. I do think it is important to get the code as tight to standards as possible.