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Posted by windandwaves on 02/23/06 11:36
Jim Higson wrote:
> Alan J. Flavell wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Jim Higson wrote:
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>>> Since standards compliant browsers ignore rules they doesn't
>>> understand anyway, this seems like validation for
>>> it's own sake.
>> [1]
>>
>> There's something in what you say. But if your documents are full of
>> deliberate non-standard items, you practically lose the ability to
>> use the validators and checkers for finding non-deliberate errors.
>
> I'd only ever do this for CSS. XHTML validation is still important.
>
>> I got myself into just that position only yesterday, in putting ruby
>> annotation into what was otherwise a valid HTML/4.01 Strict document.
>> And did just what I'm warning about - at first I missed a real
>> mistake in the markup. (At least in this situation one could
>> validate against a custom DTD, and if I decided to go seriously into
>> that, it's what I would do. But for a one-off hack...)
>
> For CSS, I just run it through a flex/bison parser to test the
> syntax. Seems to work ok. Also, my text editor (kate) is very good at
> showing bad CSS syntax.
>
> What I like to do, btw is use server-side PHP to generate
> stylesheets, and then run a little shell script to grab the output
> and turn it back into a static file.
what editor do you use for writing the PHP. I like to edit my css in a css
editor, but if I turn it into a PHP file I can not...
> NIcolaas
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