> -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Cummings [mailto:rob...@interjinn.com] > Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 4:18 PM > To: Boyd, Todd M. > Cc: PHP General list > Subject: Re: [PHP] Javascript question > > On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 16:11 -0600, Boyd, Todd M. wrote: > > Before some of you newbies feel like being heroes and jump all over > me: > > > > I KNOW THIS IS A PHP-RELATED LIST. IF YOU DON'T LIKE MY QUESTION, > DON'T > > ANSWER IT. > > > > Now that that's out of the way... I have a Javascript question (and > > maybe a Browser/DOM question) for you folks. I'm not sure this is > > anything they teach you in any online/in-seat/self-taught Javascript > > course that I've ever seen before, so I figured I would bring it > here. > > > > My boss asked me if I knew of a tool that would change the <!DOCTYPE> > of > > a page on-the-fly to test validation in different schemes (i.e., > XHTML > > Strict, Transitional, Loose, etc.). After a bit of looking around, > this > > is the solution I came up with (as a bookmarklet): > > > > javascript:document.write('<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML > 1.0 > > Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>' + > > document.getElementsByTagName('html')[0].innerHTML); > > > > However, I'm not sure it will fire any validation events, since > > technically the page has already been loaded (Javascript is just > adding > > more text). I fear the case will be the same if the current page's > > source is sent to a new browser window. > > > > I'm not asking for any coding suggestions, necessarily--just curious > as > > to whether or not anyone knew if this will invoke browser validation > > events or not. Comments and questions are more than welcome, though. > :) > > Can't you do it via PHP using a GET parameter? Seems more likely to > work > properly since it requires the page be reloaded on a fresh slate. While > at the same time, it will easily jump through the doctypes that the > server deems suitable given the parameter > > http://www.www.www/foo.php?doctype=xmlstrict1.0
Rob, Absolutely. However, requiring a server-side script was something I was hoping to avoid. It may be useful as an intranet utility somewhere down the road, but a bookmarklet was what I was shooting for for this first test. Great minds think alike, eh? :) // Todd -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
