I gave up relying on custom doctypes when I realized no matter how nice a dtd I made, the only use was at the validaters! I looked around for syntax driven editors, and found only a few and they were schema based!
Now I just use XHTML 1.1 and play my own tricks... with the help of jquery! <h1 class="editable"> is just fine for me. On 1/24/07, zelexir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, I had a wakeup call the other day when looking for a solution to a > problem of mine when I bumped into this: > http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/own-dtd.html Creating your own DTD for > HTML validation . > > So I'm wondering, why this isn't more widespread. > > Now I can write code like this: <h1 editable="true">This is a topic</h1> and > still make validation (not for the standard but for my edited version of > one). > > So I made a few changes in a edit in place script I'm working on, and I > gotta say it makes the source much more readable. > > so instead of > <h1 id="topic-5-news" class="editableLine">This is the topic of news > nr5</h1> > > I get > <h1 db="news" field="topic" unique="5" editable="line">This is the topic of > news nr5</h1> > > Or like I'm using it: > <div db="news" unique="5"> > <h1 field="topic" editable="true">This is the topic of news nr5</h1> > <div field="content" editable="true">This is a editable paragraph</div> > </div> > > and with jQuery I'm able to use the selectors $('h1[editable=true]') to > generate a <input> field and $('div[editable=true]') to generate a WYSIWYG > editor. > > I get the current table and unique id from checking the parent div's > parameters, and the field from the current element. > > Ok so this is getting a little long, but why oh why, havn't I thought of > this before? And whats the catch?! > I'ts late and I really gotta get some sleep, but I would love to hear some > input in this from fellow JQuery users, we do want our code to be easy to > read, don't we? :P > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Giving-up-regular-DOCTYPES-tf3095989.html#a8595317 > Sent from the JQuery mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > _______________________________________________ > jQuery mailing list > [email protected] > http://jquery.com/discuss/ > -- Ⓙⓐⓚⓔ - יעקב ʝǡǩȩ ᎫᎪᏦᎬ _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/
