[Koha-devel] Koha, coding style and templates

[Owen Leonard]

> One more idea :
> in templates, how to write HTML ?
...
> 3- as required in w3c html : everything in right 
> part of a token has "" 

I'd be all for making templates XTHML-Transitional.  Barring full compliance 
with that standard, I would suggest at the very least these guidlines:

- All HTML tags in lower case (HTML:Template tags in uppercase is fine of 
course)
- All attribute values are quoted (<table border="0"> instead of <table 
border=0>
- No 'minimization' of attributes, so <input type="checkbox" checked> is 
changed to <input type="checkbox" checked="checked">

XHTML requires that all tags be closed, so tags like <br> become <br />  This 
may be too much hassle for those who don't care about XHTML-compliance, so at 
minimum that 'optional' end tags be used: <p></p> <li></li> <option></option>

These kind of changes are only a minor alteration in normal HTML markup 
writing, and will make it easier for those who want to go as far as adding the 
XHTML DocType and moving to full XHTML compliance.

What do others think?

  -- Owen

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