Not that I’ve used it for several years now, but I’m still interested in Notes/Domino. The Vowe bloggers have a few posts about the new version.
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XHTML and Domino
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Done it! The site is now XHTML 1.0 transitional. I wimped out of going the whole hog to 1.1 but I will give that a go when I understand it better. Syntactically it’s not much different from XHTML 1.0, but the MIME type is application/xhtml+xml instead of plain old text/html which apparently has implications of some sort. There are still a few things missing (most notable the search) but I should be back to normal in the next week or so.
UPDATED: Back to HTML 4.01 Transitional….
I read these two articles and realised that I would be misusing XHTML and that HTML was really what this site needed. And although I dislike ‘browser-sniffers’, I may consider checking the UA and serving XHTML with a MIME type of application/xhtml+xml to Mozilla and friends and text/html to everything else. Or I might just stick to HTML – it does the job for this simple site just fine.Oh yeah – and thanks again to Ferdy for his excellent article on doing this stuff in Domino.
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Search box
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The search box is back after a short holiday. Why did it go? When I hacked rejigged the way Domino served the pages I found that the search page wouldn’t work any more – I got a “HTTP Web Server: Application Exception – Documents treated as HTML cannot be edited” error. After guessing likely URLs I still couldn’t get it working so back to the less than perfect but usable current search page.
I rebuilt it using Jake’s most excellent article. However, the nasty work around I’ve resorted to to get this working is to leave the search page as it was: unpleasant, un-accessible, quirks-mode HTML. But at least the search is there in the meantime.
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Accessibility with Domino web sites
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If you’ve checked the source-code lately you’ll see that it is now actually properly HTML compliant and accessible. I found this great article at Ferdy Christant’s excellent site. It explains a simple method for creating pages that allow you to control the HTML instead of Domino – so that there’s a full doc-type, no deprecated attributes in the body element, and so on. There are a few things I’ve yet to work around, but nothing too major.
You may have noticed that the search box has gone – I’m re-writing that part of the site and it will return soon; and likewise, the permalinks have also taken a temporary hiatus, but they’ll also be back soon.
Good on ya Ferdy – you’re a legend!
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Speed really is freedom
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This new Domino server I’ve just moved to is amazing. It is sooooo fast – like a real web server. Things are looking up.
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Notes Domino 6
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