Thanks John. Very well put.
> The point is valid that a page that wears the badge should have been
> tested to make sure that it still complies. However, this is an open
> source, community supported, project -- not a shrink wrapped
> commercial product with a large marketing and legal department
> insuring that enough disclaimers are put on everything that the
> company can't be held to a standard.
>
> If someone is concerned about the generated XHTML enough to go in
> and create a patch to fix the issues, I'm sure the committers will
> review it and if it doesn't break something else, add it to the
> project. The OFBiz team is everyone in the community, we can all
> work to make it better. I, for example, found some extraneous
> attributes in some tags in the demo, and a committer looked into it
> right away. If we cannot figure out how to "fix" an issue we see,
> then we can bring it to the community, as you did, and maybe someone
> else will pick up the torch and run with it.
>
> Demo pages are "proof of concept", production is what we make it.
>
> On Jun 24, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Ján Valkovič wrote:
>
>> Thanks for explanation, but Amazon.com haven't this
>>
https://demo904.ofbiz.org/images/valid-xhtml10.png on _every_ page.
>> And
>> catalog is part of ofbiz, it isn't 3rd party application deployed to
>> OFBiz. I wondered why is logo "XHTML 1.0 valid" on XHTML 1.0 non-
>> valid
>> page creted by ofbiz team.
>>
>> ya
>>
>> Dňa St, 2009-06-24 o 10:33 -0700, John Hays napísal:
>>> Ján, its as valid as you make it. The XHTML is generated by the
>>> widgets, servlets, and ftl templates that go into the page. If the
>>> programmer who put together the "demo" catalog did not create valid
>>> XHTML, then it won't pass the validator. Clean HTML, XHTML, etc.
>>> is a
>>> great goal, which can be achieved through diligence by the designers
>>> and coders, but is rarely truly necessary from a pragmatic point of
>>> view -- for example, try running Amazon's home page through the
>>> validator, you will see over 1500 warnings and errors in their HTML,
>>> or over 500 XHTML errors for Overstock.com.
>>>
>>> OFBiz provides the framework to create valid XHTML, but it is up to
>>> the developer/implementor to make it so, the framework cannot force
>>> good coding.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> John
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