[Trac-tickets] Re: [The Trac Project] #1010: Trac XHTML validation errors

[The Trac Project]

#1010: Trac XHTML validation errors
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       Id:  1010     |      Status:  new                     
Component:  general  |    Modified:  Wed Dec  1 11:48:50 2004
 Severity:  trivial  |   Milestone:                          
 Priority:  lowest   |     Version:  0.8                     
    Owner:  jonas    |    Reporter:  anonymous               
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Changes (by cmlenz):

  * component:  mod_python frontend => general
  * severity:  normal => trivial
  * priority:  normal => lowest
  * summary:  Trac does not validate as HTML and content-type problems =>
              Trac XHTML validation errors
  * owner:  cmlenz => jonas

Comment:

 We try to keep the pages valid, but naturally it is easy to miss some
 cases. I don't see how switching to XHTML 1.0 Transitional would help.
 Your example:

 {{{
 <ul class="changes"></ul>
 }}}

 is as invalid in transitional as in strict (X)HTML as far as I know. It's
 just a bug in the template that needs to be fixed (somewhat tricky in this
 case).

 As for the whole XHTML mime-type issue, my opinion is that XHTML is a
 political rather than technical choice. I.e. XHTML as a marketing
 buzzword.

 Anyway, this ticket cannot be acted upon as is. If there are validation
 errors, they should be logged individually, or in such a way that every
 validation error is listed and described. Preferrably, the validator
 should be run over a vanilla Trac install and not over
 http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/, which adds stuff not in the default
 templates.

 Let's keep this ticket open though (minus the mime-type issue, feel free
 to log that as separate ticket). Please add other validation errors you
 found as comments.

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