Web Standards

As with most open source programs, PBooks is committed to complying with web standards. Unfortunately, Microsoft Internet Explorer does not, so its going to be a tough balance, especially since many businesses use Internet Explorer.

Businesses are the target users of PBooks, obviously, so I'll be testing PBooks with Internet Explorer too. Feedback is wanted, so please let us know what you think of this topic.

I mention this topic now as I'm starting the process of changing the PBooks pages from HTML to XHTML. This causes some problems in Internet Explorer, even in more recent versions. I'm also starting to use more and more Javascript with PBooks, especially JQuery. JQuery does a good job of managing cross-browser differences, but MSIE still renders DOM object differently, at least in my experience.

I might even start using E4X (EMCAScript for XML), which I think is currently only supported in Firefox / Iceweasel. There is an e4x compatibility library for IE, maybe it works for other browsers too?

So I just checked to find out which browsers are found to be visiting this site, and I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Firefox is number one! Congrats Mozilla! Here's the rest of the breakdown:

I've just checked in a xhtml2dom.js.xsl template which transforms xhtml to dom code.