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| Posted: 10 Mar 2006 14:00 | ||
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The forum code inserts a comment before the doctype when constructing the HTML page like so: Code: (I have added the doctype in mainheader.htm) This comment really shouldn't be there. To get round this, I have tweaked the get_template function in skinning.php so that it only inserts the comment if it's not the main header that it's dealing with. <!-- START: mainheader --> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> Code:
if($template_name == "mainheader") return "return <<<TMP\r{$t}\r\n<!-- END: $template_name -->\r\nTMP;\r\n"; Else return "return <<<TMP\r\n<!-- START: $template_name -->\r\n{$t}\r\n<!-- END: $template_name -->\r\nTMP;\r\n"; This seems to work, but perhaps there is a better way to do it? Ian |
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| Posted: 10 Mar 2006 15:51 | ||
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The comments are there to help webmasters see which template they need to edit. You can remove the comments all together if you don't need them. I personally don't care about doctypes and other web standards and validations because:
1. 99% of the web pages don't follow them 2. Search engines know about 1. and don't use validation for ranking purposes 3. Search engines' pages don't validate themselves. __________________ Are you looking for an SEO Consultant?
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| Posted: 15 Mar 2006 20:10 | ||
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| Even so, we should have the option to decide if we want to validate the forum or not. | ||
| Posted: 15 Mar 2006 20:48 | ||
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Validation is overrated and useless, trust me. If you really want to do it, just edit the templates. __________________ Are you looking for an SEO Consultant?
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