Many will have noticed that IE8 has recently been released. For the first time it is truly standards compliant (by default). The other 3 main browsers (Firefox, Safari & Opera) are also compliant and all now pass the Acid 2 test I believe.
If you show any Homeseer page in IE8, it offers to view the page in compatibility mode (for old browsers) as it is not W3C compliant (which we all know)!
I freely admit that the majority of the stuff i have written for Homeseer is not W3C compliant but I have no incentive to do anything about it as Homeseer core code is not either. Unless Homeseer's core code is compliant, anything else provided by plugins/scriptwriters etc will never be necessarily written correctly in the future.
I would like to see Homeseer's pages written to be fully compliant to XHTML DTD standards with an option to select XHTML 1.0 Strict or XHTML 1.0 Transitional in the web page setup page. Obviously this would be set to transitional so that it would be compatible with old plugins/scripts but would give an opportunity to go to strict sometime in the future.
What do other people think about this?
If you show any Homeseer page in IE8, it offers to view the page in compatibility mode (for old browsers) as it is not W3C compliant (which we all know)!
I freely admit that the majority of the stuff i have written for Homeseer is not W3C compliant but I have no incentive to do anything about it as Homeseer core code is not either. Unless Homeseer's core code is compliant, anything else provided by plugins/scriptwriters etc will never be necessarily written correctly in the future.
I would like to see Homeseer's pages written to be fully compliant to XHTML DTD standards with an option to select XHTML 1.0 Strict or XHTML 1.0 Transitional in the web page setup page. Obviously this would be set to transitional so that it would be compatible with old plugins/scripts but would give an opportunity to go to strict sometime in the future.
What do other people think about this?
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