[DesDev] Design to template

[Peter-Paul Koch]

> > >so, XHTML 1.0 Transitional?  has anyone decided what MIME type
> > >we'll serve it as? CSS 2.1? no tables for layout? no embedded
> > >style? no overuse of classes, spans, or divs?
> >
> > I agree with everything. As to mime type: keep it simple and use
> > text/html. The other stuff is too complicated for use and useless
> > anyway.
>
>well, if we don't get the MIME, then it isn't really XHTML...

Can't we pretend it is?

Opera 7.20 doesn't seem to recognize JavaScript when you serve an HTML page 
with application/xml+xhtml . This actually seems to be a feature, not a bug, 
but in general the Opera team gets far too high on the standards and starts 
doing strange things.

it
>won't validate as such... and given that (i think) that MIME type
>causes IE6/win some issues, that's a concern...
>
>of course, HTML itself *isn't* a discarded standard... we *could*
>still do all of the above in HTML *and* serve it as the correct MIME
>type...

You mean good old HTML 4.01 Trans? Yeah, why not? Frankly I don't care a 
bit, let the group decide.

>as it is, the articles themselves won't validate when you consider
>none of the <img> elements have a self-terminating slash...
>
>or am i being too picky?

We could add the trailing slash in the new templates.

>[...]
> > And who's actually going to take the first stab at coding it? I'd love
> > to but I don't have time for the next two weeks.
> >
> > Or maybe several people could download the psd and try individually,
> > then the group decides which batch of code is going to be developed
> > further.
>
>well, i'm gonna... regardless... and i do have version control...
>
>however, i'm moving this weekend, so i won't realistically start
>until monday...
>
>even if someone else does it, i'm still gonna tackle it just to make
>sure i *can* do it, and also because we might benefit from it...

My idea exactly, except that I'll start a week later than you.

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