[ckan-dev] W3C validation compliancy (nice to have future feature)

Thu Aug 2 10:22:23 UTC 2012

> as a "nice to have" feature for a next CKAN release I'd suggest some
> cleaning-up of HTML (and possibly CSS) code, in order to make the
> default theme compliant to W3C specifications and validators.
> 
> For example if you try to validate the present 1.8 default theme (on
> http://test.ckan.org) you get some errors. See:
> http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ftest.ckan.org%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0
> 
> Most of them are quite simple to correct.

Even though the templates are being completely rewritten for a future
release of CKAN (as Toby said) it might be worth fixing validation
errors in the old templates, if they're simple fixes.