On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 10:20 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote: > Bob McConnell wrote: > > > > > Our SOP is to generate standards compliant pages, validate them with > > Firefox and the HTML Validator add-on, then deal with the deviant > > browsers. It's a lot less work than trying to do it the other way > > around. There are a few minor issues, such as W3C still refusing to > > allow the autocomplete attribute for forms, while PCI requires it. But > > those are few and far between. > > Go HTML 5. > It doesn't work with the validator plugin but it validates at W3C. > > And while going HTML 5, start migrating to HTML 5 layout. > > IE > > <div id="aside"> > <aside> > // stuff > </aside> > </div> > > Most browsers do not recognize the HTML 5 layout tags yet, so you have > to wrap them in a div and attach the style to the div, but as browsers > start adopting HTML 5 your content will work with context features even > while still wrapped in the div tags. > > It is particularly useful for article and section, where the depth of a > section within an article can be helpful for non visual browsers. > What about search engines? Will there be any impact on these, particularly with regards to semantic content? Also, are there any browsers that would fall over with unknown tags? I know IE used to not take too kindly to these sorts of things, but that was a good few years ago (I'm thinking IE2/IE3 here)! Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
