Re: Suggestions about Front End code examples

On Dec 5, 2007, at 5:23 AM, Keryx Web wrote:

Hi Today I polluted the internals list with an off topic remark about Front End code quality. I quote myself: [Off topic rant] I am constantly amazed that some PHP-wizards, whose knowledge of back-end development clearly shows in how many ways I must still be considered an newbie, are very unaware about what has been going in on the front end this century, with regards to accessibility, standards, unobtrusive scripting, semantic (X)HTML, CSS-based design, etc. [/rant] Now, things might improve if the manual nudged people in the right direction. I am not thinking about teaching HTML or CSS, but doing the small right things in all examples. E.g. This page: http://docs.php.net/manual/en/introduction.php The HTML in "An introductory example" should have a DOCTYPE. And always a strict version of either HTML 4.01 or XHTML. I will in a separate mail submit text that may improve this page: http://docs.php.net/manual/en/tidy.examples.php

Lars: If you "speak" XML, and have a strong, critical, eye for ensuring that documentation is both complete *and* concise, you're more than halfway to becoming one heck of a documentation author for PHP. Have you considered helping out? It's one heck of a resume/recommendation builder. Some starting points: http://doc.php.net/php/dochowto/ http://doc.php.net/wiki/ --ronabop