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Hello. This is a request for the next update, and this is a very interesting one that I propose.

I suggest that the entire default skin for MyBB is recoded so that the software is coded into XHTML. This would mean NO tables: just <div>'s and CSS.

Please do this for the next update. Would be a lot neader and search-engine friendly too!

XHTML != "no tables"....

If this does happen it will not be in 1.2. Oh an tables are XHTML compliant.

Tables are not a bad thing.

They're great for layout when you need multiple columns or rows... let's see you try to recreate the Member List or the Forum Display page without tables.

You can apply CSS to tables just like any other tags, so the amount of XHTML markup can be kept to a minimum.

In my experience, tables are easier to use than floated divs, and much more reliable. CSS has many quirks that can lead to frustration and rendering problems. Different browsers can show different results.

Of course, tables can be overused, and previous MyBB versions may be guilty of that...

Tables are great for displaying tabular data, but their use for cosmetic layout is frowned upon. When browsers which are fully XHTML 1.1 and CSS2 compliant are common-place, then we will use divs more than tables.

Hmm, I thought XHTML 2 only allowed the use of <div>'s and CSS; tables weren't supported.

Nevertheless, I say yay, go ahead and make like the first forum software that is XHTML and CSS. Believe it or not, you'd probably get a lot more skinners and support just for doing it with <div>'s and pure CSS. Pages load a lot faster too.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3...bboard.net

Other than the one error regarding an unclosed <strong> tag, this forums index page validates as Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

My errors confuse me:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3...ype=Inline

What do I need to fix / how do I fix my errors?

Im not too sure about numbers two and three but...

1) "&" should be "&amp;", It will still display the same
2) you havent closed a bold tag
3) See error 2

MiNT Wrote:Im not too sure about numbers two and three but...

1) "&" should be "&amp;", It will still display the same
2) you havent closed a bold tag
3) See error 2

It is &amp; !