[TextMate] Re: HTML, auto-complete and snippets

[Nick Hristov]

Since we are on this topic, is there a built-in html tidy, or run this 
as an external command too?

Nick

On Oct 6, 2004, at 1:29 PM, marc wrote:

> On 07/10/2004, at 5:16 AM, Sune Foldager wrote:
>
>>> 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. 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 agree with you in one sense, the developer has to know/learn the 
> correct syntax, to work most effectively with it, but there's also a 
> reason we have computers, they can do alot of the 'detail stuff' for 
> us... like data entry validation, and error prevention.... : )
>
> Sure, you don't want to completely cede all validation to the editor, 
> but syntactic validity is function of an editor, think of it as JIT 
> validation... and while the syntax strictness is a nice bonus I'd like 
> to have, both to reinforce my standards knowledge, but also in 
> speeding my entry, and preventing typos.
>
> ...but all of this talk about auto-completion is missing the fact that 
> with a little work, Snippets offer some advantages... like the tab 
> stops, *limiting*, or guiding your code navigation, but ironically, 
> they'd also benefit from the ability to add valid attributes via 
> code-hinting, once you want to deviate from the basic markup from the 
> Snippet.
>
>
> m
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