From: Holden Glova <dsafari@...>
Date: 2001-09-06T16:08:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20953] Re: Minor cgi.rb question

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On Wed, 05 Sep 2001 23:14, David Alan Black wrote:
> Hello --
>
> On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Tobias Reif wrote:
> > W. Kent Starr wrote:
> > > A suggestion: use "standard" language for your passed hash
> > > keys, say "bgcolor" rather than "H_bcolor". The result would be
> > > that anyone reasonably skilled in HTML could look at the Ruby
> > > code and gain an immediate understanding of what is happening.
> >
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/changes.html#h-A.3.2
> >      * Almost all attributes that specify the presentation of an
> > HTML document (e.g., colors, alignment, fonts, graphics, etc.)
> > have been deprecated in favor of style sheets. The list of
> > attributes in the appendix indicates which attributes have been
> > deprecated.
> >
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/attributes.html
> > Index of Attributes
> > Legend: D = Deprecated, L = Loose DTD, F = Frameset DTD
> >
> > Use CSS.
> >
> > Ruby libraries should be up to date.
>
> For writing HTML, though, a tool like the CGI library (or the kind
> of HTML writer we've been talking about) is just a convenience,
> because it doesn't validate or even impose any mild constraints
> based on the DTD (such as limiting choice of elements).  
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Correct me if I'm wrong (happens all the time) but doesn't XHTML have 
XML compliant tags i.e. all tags have a close? If this is the case it 
should be possible and possibley is beneficial to include validation 
in a convenient tool like this :)

- -- 
Signed,
Holden Glova
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