On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Hector Virgen <djvir...@gmail.com> wrote: > Andrew, > You may want to inform the Doctype view helper of your selected doctype > early on in your request (at bootstrap is great) because other view helpers > will use it to determine if tags need to be self-closed or not. > -- > Hector
I have it set in the bootstrap. The DocType view helper injected the desired <!DOCTYPE >: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> It was doing this part fine, and all tags generated by the framework are correctly closed. The problem was with my layout script. The top of it looked like this: <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> <?php echo $this->doctype(); ?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <?php echo $this->headMeta()->setHttpEquiv('Content-Type', 'application/xml+html; charset=utf-8'); ?> .... I didn't pay much attention to the fact that my editor program had inserted the ' standalone="yes"' string in the xml declaration. Changing my layout script to this made all the browsers I tested happy with the contents generated by ZF: <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?> <?php echo $this->doctype(); ?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <?php echo $this->headMeta()->setHttpEquiv('Content-Type', 'application/xml+html; charset=utf-8'); ?> .... That enabled the browsers to look up the entity references included in http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd (via <!ENTITY % HTMLlat1 PUBLIC "-//W3C//ENTITIES Latin 1 for XHTML//EN" "xhtml-lat1.ent">) and that made all the difference. The problem with the Zend_View_Helper_HeadStyle helper is that it generates style tags that look like this: <style type="text/css" media="screen"> <!-- body { margin: 0 } --> </style> The X/HTML comment tags are necessary for backward compatibility to prevent the browsers that do not recognize the <style> tag from rendering the contents. The issue is that they cause the contents of the style tag to be ignored in some browsers if the server sends a Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml mime-type header. I'm not really sure there is a safe way to fix this in a fully backward compatible manner. Instead, based on this document (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Properly_Using_CSS_and_JavaScript_in_XHTML_Documents#Do_not_use_inline_style_or_script_in_XHTML) I just avoid using the HeadStyle view helper in favor of saving style information to an external CSS stylesheet and linking to it using the HeadLink view helper. Andrew
