[sclug] XHTML Question

[Tim Sutton]

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Hi

Thanks for the various replies to my XHTML question. To respond to various
points:

The page I am writing is dynmically rendered using php and, may have an empty
select box to start with. After user interaction, the page may become valid
xhtml if the user adds an entry to the select box - however the age still
wont valid 100% of the time with the w3c validator which is kinda what I was
aiming for.

WRT using javascript, I appreciate there are a number of problems of it being
implemented differently in different browsers. However it is useful for
client side stuff. The only alternatives I see are a) using proprietry or non
standard tools like flash - which I have never bothered to learn as it does
not work by default n konq! or b) posting the page back to the server for
every small user interaction that takes place which will probably waste a lot
of bandwidth and piss the users off :-(

Is / are there any other alternative to js in the works to provide a better
option?

<select>&nbsp</select> Doesnt validate.

I could (and probably will) add a dummy entry to the select control and make
it disappear when a valid entry is added to the control - but it is a lot of
extra work simply for standards compliance which makes me look for an easier
way out first :-(

Thanks for all the input

Regards

Tim
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