[Zope] conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards

[george donnelly]

> From: Jamie Heilman <jamie@audible.transient.net>

>> 99% of the time, to talk about "what html Zope produces" is a fallacy,
>> because, as others have said, Zope produces very little html that the coder
>> can not change. I.E, the HTML that Zope produces is entirely in your hands
>> for all intents and purposes.
> 
> Both the <base> tag, and the Image.tag() method are examples of markup
> generated by Zope (which, yes, can be overridden, and that was the
> entire jist of my reply).  It may be 99% of people who are accusing
> Zope of generating bad markup don't know what they are talking about,
> but that doesn't make my examples any less valid.  My understanding of
> the markup generation policy is that any and all code which generates
> markup of its own should aim for standards compliance, and that which
> falls short should be classified as a bug and fixed.  You've pointed
> out another piece of the framework which needs help, dtml-tree, but I
> don't see any bugs filed against it, perhaps you should do so.

actually the base tag is xhtml-compliant:

here's the one that my site spits out, and i haven't hacked anything:

<base href="http://www.zettai.net/" />

I think we're on the same page here. :)

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