I'm getting more into jQuery and so have set up a HTML/Javascript/CSS base site which I use for all my tests.
Since these tests will eventually turn into PHP and ASP.NET MVC websites, I want to use this opportunity to get the basics down right again for modern browsers and web standards before building the scripting languages on top of it.
I've selected to use:
- XHTML 1.0 Strict
- UTF-8 encoding
- as few CSS references as possible (put everything in 1 CSS file for loading speed)
- as few Javascript references as possible (1 javascript file plus the jquery code base reference - I assume using the Google jQuery code base is best practice for speed)
- I check my code as I build it with the http://validator.w3.org
Is there anything else I need to consider?
Here is an example of one of my test websites:
index.htm:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"/>
<title>Text XHTML Page</title>
<link href="css/main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all"/>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="javascript/main.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<h1 class="highlightTitle">Text</h1>
<p class="main">First</p>
<p>Second</p>
<p id="selected" class="regular">Third</p>
<p>Fourth</p>
<form action="">
<div>
<input type="button" value="highlight it" onclick="highlightIt();countThem()" />
<input type="button" value="highlight title" onclick="highlightTitle()" />
<p>here is another paragraph</p>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
main.cs:
p.highlighted {
background-color:orange;
}
h1.highlightTitle {
background-color:yellow;
}
h1.deselected {
background-color:#eee;
}
p.regular {
font-weight: bold;
}
main.js:
google.load("jquery", "1.3.2");
function highlightIt() {
$('#selected')
.toggleClass('highlighted');
}
function countThem() {
alert("there are " + $("p.main").size() + " paragraphs");
}
function highlightTitle() {
$("h1").toggleClass("deselected");
}