tag-soup

A Stack Overflow Podcast throwback: What is to be done about tag soup?

A few weeks ago, in episode 14, Jeff and Joel were HTML, LINQ, Rails, et al: Atwood: Even in Rails land, where they have the flexibility of essentially redefining the language at will, to solve all these problems -- at a steep performance cost, obviously, but still, the productivity is worth it -- they still, if you look at the HTML ...

PHP tag library

I'm writing a small web app as a side project. It's done in PHP. Boy, how I loathe PHP. Well, actually, I don't hate PHP per se. I can't stand HTML intermixed with code. I can barely look at one of those templates without feeling nauseated. I know, when you have an army of "web designers" at your disposal, and you are the only develope...

Does anyone beside me just NOT get ASP.NET MVC?

I've been fiddling with ASP.NET MVC since the CTP, and I like a lot of things they did, but there are things I just don't get. For example, I downloaded beta1, and I'm putting together a little personal site/resume/blog with it. Here is a snippet from the ViewSinglePost view: <% // Display the "Next and Previous" links ...

What options are there to find out if my ASP.NET MVC view is not XHTML compliant

Clarification: Thanks for the suggestions of tools for validating XHTML. I'm primarily looking for a solution that will run server side (or on the client with jQuery) so i can set it and forget it during development - and get told when I have issues without having to run a tool all the time. All this tag soup stuff scares me with ASP...

Asp.Net MVC / Entity Framework. Avoid tag soup?

Ok, I have a new MVC project which uses the entity framework. I'm spitting out messages (This is a bulletin board style section) now depending on some conditional factors the row in the table output must have a differant class style. The model that is passed to the page from the controller is the entity Model (Called Messages and cont...