Yep--I need to disable it. Does anyone know how to do this?
If you're reply involves admonishing me not to deviate from the "standard", save it. I need this to happen.
Disable XHTML Validation
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RamonS
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Re: Disable XHTML Validation
I blatantly ignore your request not to tell you not to deviate from the standard: Do not deviate from the standard! That said, why does that need to happen? What is the rationale? Is it to appease a piece of software that was designed with blatant ignorance to well established standards? Just asking...
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Re: Disable XHTML Validation
I'm going to ignore the fact that my needs are irrelevant long enough to say this: Why would Flare lock me into an aging XHTML paradigm when HTML5 and SEO--something that Flare purports to support--have markup that is not only unrecognized (ignored), but unsupported (can't assign a <nav> or <article> tag in the tool bar), and even actively complains about despite being widely supported--even encouraged--in *real* web design.
Cleaving to aging design paradigms is why we still have new sites that use HTML3.2 and CSS1 only. Who needs a time machine with you've got sites that still rock that 1995 look and feel?
With that out of the way, we can return to the issue at hand. Although I feel like the response to this will include the point that no such toggle exists in Flare--that I'm stuck with a validation that disallows valid code. Oy, the irony!
I don't resort to this forum often, but when I do, it's because I have a pressing need, and the solution is eluding me. As can be often heard here in the south, "This ain't my first rodeo."
I've had to hack my Flare pages so that I can use .php code where applicable, and it's no help when even employing some simple jQuery makes me feel like I'm having a stroke.
I'm not bashing the Flare developers--I know how difficult it is to develop applications that basically write code for you in the background, and how important standards and validation are with these sorts of applications. However, for those of us who know the boundaries well enough to skirt them when necessary--in a way that doesn't break anything the user will see--we would really like to have a way to get some of these simple solutions to work. Flare isn't all-powerful, but being limited is one thing. Forcing that limitation on others indiscriminately, without regard to their actual needs or abilities, is a foolish move and the opposite of flexibility *and* extensibility--the X in XHTML.
Cleaving to aging design paradigms is why we still have new sites that use HTML3.2 and CSS1 only. Who needs a time machine with you've got sites that still rock that 1995 look and feel?
With that out of the way, we can return to the issue at hand. Although I feel like the response to this will include the point that no such toggle exists in Flare--that I'm stuck with a validation that disallows valid code. Oy, the irony!
I don't resort to this forum often, but when I do, it's because I have a pressing need, and the solution is eluding me. As can be often heard here in the south, "This ain't my first rodeo."
I've had to hack my Flare pages so that I can use .php code where applicable, and it's no help when even employing some simple jQuery makes me feel like I'm having a stroke.I'm not bashing the Flare developers--I know how difficult it is to develop applications that basically write code for you in the background, and how important standards and validation are with these sorts of applications. However, for those of us who know the boundaries well enough to skirt them when necessary--in a way that doesn't break anything the user will see--we would really like to have a way to get some of these simple solutions to work. Flare isn't all-powerful, but being limited is one thing. Forcing that limitation on others indiscriminately, without regard to their actual needs or abilities, is a foolish move and the opposite of flexibility *and* extensibility--the X in XHTML.