In situations, where phpBB has to write automatic code, e.g. in user posts or such things, it writes XHTML attributes. I want to change that, and make phpBB write the fully supported HTML 4.01. But i can't find the PHP-Files responsible for this.
So what do I have to change?
phpBB writes XHTML instead of HTML 4.01. How to change?
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you would probably have to change just about every php file and tpl file in the script.
what exactly have you found that doesn't work in IE? I would think if it was a wide spread problem, that more people would have found it. I don't and never would use IE except to confirm that the reason certain web pages don't work is because they are written using front page. So, if you could give examples, it would help.
robert
what exactly have you found that doesn't work in IE? I would think if it was a wide spread problem, that more people would have found it. I don't and never would use IE except to confirm that the reason certain web pages don't work is because they are written using front page. So, if you could give examples, it would help.
robert
My problem is that my phpBB installation seems to be confused...it mixes XHTML and HTML. I'm not using a modded version, it just seems to be coded this way. For example, the main page is <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">, yet it has many XHTML excaped objects (< />). And yet it's not entirely XHTML either, for example the meta tags are NOT escaped. It seems sloppy if you ask me.
what problem with style sheets
please be specific if you want some help here.
Internet Explorer is not CSS2 compliant. It's barely CSS1. Microsoft has promised that IE will become CSS2.1 compliant, but CSS2.1 isn't a complete spec yet.
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Cyber Dog wrote: My problem is that my phpBB installation seems to be confused...it mixes XHTML and HTML. I'm not using a modded version, it just seems to be coded this way. For example, the main page is <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">, yet it has many XHTML excaped objects (< />). And yet it's not entirely XHTML either, for example the meta tags are NOT escaped. It seems sloppy if you ask me.
There are plenty or PAID alternative outs there that are not so sloppy you know.
Bachsau wrote: Yes, it works with text/html, but the problems with style sheets persist...
I don't care of changing some PHP files, i would do it, if I could find out, what is to change...
I worked out you would have to know EXTENSIVE Html and edit about 200 tpl, php files, and maybe take you a few weeks.
You would have to RE-WRITE the WHOLE of PHPBB front end, i just did a search for <br /> thru the phpbb folder on my server there was 200+ files matched, so MONUMENTAL task me closer to what you have to do.
Cenobitez wrote: There are plenty or PAID alternative outs there that are not so sloppy you know.
Oh I'm well aware, and if I had any intention of paying for a BB I would be using something else.
I just find it strange that they claim compliance on the features page, yet in reality its not compliant with either standard.
I'd actually be happy to contribute some time cleaning up the code, but despite being open source I havn't really found a method for contributing to the project itself.
It should be possible to get rid of most of the offending tags without too much trouble - essentially do a search-and-replace on every file ("<br />" --> "<br>", and I'm sure there's a unix command that'll do this recursively for your entire forum directory). <img /> might be more of a pain - would replacing " />" with ">" everywhere be safe? Only one way to find out...
You'll probably not find much enthusiasm for the task simply because most of the world is moving towards xhtml (the Olympus dev board at area51 almost validates as xhtml transitional, for example) , and almost every html 4.01 parser treats "<br />" as equivalent to "<br>". But don't let me discourage you!
You'll probably not find much enthusiasm for the task simply because most of the world is moving towards xhtml (the Olympus dev board at area51 almost validates as xhtml transitional, for example) , and almost every html 4.01 parser treats "<br />" as equivalent to "<br>". But don't let me discourage you!