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Posted by JB on 06/03/05 03:12
Simple, blank page with just content, thats the only true way,
Anyway why you wanna be backward compatible that far is beyond me cus
they handle HTML even worse so its a losing battle!,
use the CSS @import
rule for style sheets and older browsers will simply ignore the CSS, you
could then just give your page a basic look that older browsers could
handle well while overriding the HTML styling with CSS for newer browsers.
Also answer to your other question... try use PHP's built in validator
tool to auto replace any errors in your code.
Also table height, no other way I know sorry,
HTH
Richard Lynch wrote:
> This is OT in that it's more about HTML than PHP, but solutions involving
> PHP would be particularly welcome.
>
> After playing with the W3C validator again for an hour or so...
>
> The thing is, I really want to be backwards compatible with ancient
> browsers. Like, REALLY ancient.
>
> Like, say, going back as far as 3.0 browsers.
>
> So, relying on CSS to do my layout is a non-option. It's just not there.
>
> But I LIKE the idea of having HTML validated to catch tag imbalance, typos
> in attributes, and maybe even layout problems in weird versions of
> browsers (eg Netscape 4.7 or IE on the Mac).
>
> I don't really want to be compatible with the W3C standards, however,
> since the penalty is layout that just plain doesn't work in ancient
> browsers.
>
> For example, I simply can't validate with a 100% height table, but that's
> the only way to get the layout I want on both ancient and current
> browsers.
>
> Does anybody know of a "What Works Works Validator" which checks for
> maxiumum browser compatibility rather than the W3C standard?
>
> Or even just some tools that check HTML tag balancing, and maybe
> spell-check attributes. It has to be post-PHP URL-based on not IDE/editor
> based, unless there's a PHP interpreter built into the editor to figure
> out the HTML I'm spitting out...
>
> Failing all that, does anybody know a non-CSS way to get a table to be
> 100% tall so I can get rid of this last error?
>
> Or, perhaps, a way between JavaScript and PHP to calculate how much
> white-space I need to make a spacer image to be the right height?
>
> Or...
>
> PS
> Please let's not start a flame war about browser versions, browser makers,
> standards-compliance, etc.
>
> You can do whatever you want ; I just happen to believe that backwards
> compatibility is more important than compliance with standards that aren't
> even implemented correctly at this time.
>
> So if your answer doesn't actually match my question, just hit "delete"
> Thanks.
>
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