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On 6.10.2004, space aliens observed Sune Foldager saying:

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2. I for one can never remember all the different versions of (X)HTML

and how you're allowed to nest tags in each version and what tags have which attributes and so on.

I think the best practice is to just write HTML like it was XHTML strict.. or at least transitional. That is, always end your tags, always end non-dual tags with /> and so on.

That's what I do, but it doesn't help me with the problems I mentioned.

I think making TM into an editor which manages all the standards for you is a mistake. There is the w3.org site for checking the standards, and I think it's best if the person knows about it, not the program.

I write applications in Java, C#, Objective-C, C, C++, AppleScript, Perl and some other languages. I write HTML, CSS, JavaScript, RSS and more for several different web sites which use different versions of (X)HTML.

I'm afraid I don't work with HTML often enough to remember what attributes were removed from which version of HTML, but I still want to write valid HTML. Of course I validiate my sites with the HTML validator. But even so I would like to have an editor that helps me write corrent HTML in the first place by showing me what's allowed and what's not while I actually write the code.

This is not a show stopper. TextMate is great even without such a feature. But this feature would definitely help me a great deal and save a ton of my time.

lucas

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