XHTML + CSS Checkup

You may not care... and you should certainly do !

I've spent several hours to "finalize" (as if it was possible in the IT world) the layout and the validation of the HTML + CSS. Not that it was hugely messy before but I never really tried to validate them precisely. I needed to code some h2 and h3 layout and since then I revamped what was not really compatible before.

As you could see... doesnt change anything.

Nice job. That was useful !

Yes, but still. While it was not too bad before (I wrote the code with the accessibilty in mind and the latest technics in 2005), it's always a good thing to improve the HTML semantic after a long time + the whole accessibility of everything by doing a second bunch of tests. Even if sometimes I'm really wondering WTF our lords of the W3C think sometimes. For example I wanted to stop being XHTML transitional (well after all it has been years now...) and start being strict. While 90% was already strict and 9% quite not too much of a hassle to do... There are some stuff like why the hell can we not use <ol start="4"> ? Will XML die out of it ?

There is indeed a new way to code numbers but lets be honest it doesnt really work on some of the latest versions of the main browsers so dont even think about it for the older ones... and the point is when this will be doable by FCK or other wysiwyg editors ? Not sure it will ever do. (ever = couple of years in IT)

Another thing as well is that you cant use the - yes ok it's evil - power of "document.write" javascript method during the loading of a page. Well actually it is not the XHTML1.1 strict that forbids it I think, it is the fact that you're more than welcome to drop the content-type text/html to application/xhtml+xml.

Well if you do that, most of the stuff will work (after quite some work)... but a lot of useful jack-of-all-trade tricks will just stop working. So for now on, instead of having to complexify all my javascript call, I'll stick to transitional and text/html.

Sorry, I tried but what matters most is the website to work, not to comply strict rules that are sometimes quite arguable...