[maplab-users] A web page in GMapFactory is not HTML-compliant

[Paul Spencer]

Gino,

when you create an app with GMapFactory, it makes copies of the pages 
from a set of templates.  As a temporary fix for yourself, you can edit 
the appropriate template and make it what you desire.

Paul

Gino Lucrezi wrote:

> When one creates a web application using GMapFactory the main phtml file is not totally compliant with the latest HTML specifications (HTML 4.01)
> 
> Aside from many minor details, I noticed this issue: the main form is opened with this tag:
> 
> <form name="main">
> 
> However, the 4.01 specs for HTML (and the 4.0 ones before them) say that the action attribute is required.
> Older specs (3.2 and 2.0) stated that it was optional, and defaulted to the same URL of the file containing it, but starting from 4.0 it is required.
> 
> For this reason, GMapFactory-generated files should add the action attribute.
> 
> It is not a minor quirk.
> While MS Internet Explorer 6 will gladly accept a FORM tag without the action attribute, this is not true of all browsers.
> 
> For example, we tried browsing a GMapFactory application with a Compaq palmtop which has a version of IE identifying itself as 3.02 which will have problems with a form tag missing the action attribute.
> 
> It shouldn't be too difficult for GMapFactory to generate correctly the FORM tag in the main phtml file; MapEdit already does it.
> 
> I'm reporting the bug here on the list because the bugs page on http://www.maptools.org/maplab/index.phtml?page=bugs.html doesn't yet give access to bugzilla.
> 
> Gino Lucrezi
> 
> 
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