17 Jul
Validation & Goobii Theme
Just finished validating Goobii’s new layout and old posts….now XHTML transitional 1.0 XHTML STRICT 1.0 friendly. So what’s this taught me you ask? Well usually it’d teach me nothing because shit i’ve validated more times than i’ve yawned and believe me I yawn alot.
However much to my suprise something was gained from this process besides the usual feeling of being compliant and therefore adhering to a web standard which increases accessiblity. So without straying too far from the question, here’s what i learnt.
The built in RTE in WP tinyMCE is pathetic hence why long ago i replaced it with HTMLArea however therein lies the rub. You see all RTE’s take the following rules into account.
\n becomes line-break
\r\n becomes paragraph
images are inserted but do not contain alt tags by default.
(space) is replaced by non-break-line-space
So the draw back’s is ill code, you see close tags without open ones. Things are replaced when they don’t need to be which add’s bloat…useless bloat in the database means longer queries and shittier access times.
The solution?
Seems kinda counter-productive but strip the RTE back out and edit everything with manual html. Unless someone can point me to a valid xhtml RTE editor..anyone?
A big thank you must go out to Paola for hacking in the new goobii template’s aswell as designing the final design. I will add my development versions later on as optional themes but for now i’m more than happy with what Paola’s has made compared to my green garbage. hugs thanks Paola.
If i could be arsed i’d code my own blog cms for this because it looks as if everything i use write sub-standard html and that’s just not cool.
Till next time,
Take care
Mat
