Quality Standards
All the downloads published or linked on cmsimple-xh.org have to satisfy our quality-standards.
Encoding
Since version 1.2 CMSimple_XH is UTF-8 encoded. All components for CMSimple_XH have to be UTF-8 encoded (UTF-8 without BOM) or ASCII encoded (which is a subset of UTF-8).
Web Standards
All components for CMSimple_XH, plugins, templates and others should produce valid HTML 4.01 transitional and/or XHTML 1.0 transitional resp. HTML5 and/or XHTML5. This should be documented by the respective programmer, designer or vendor. One way to do so, is to mark the downloadable files.
Our guidelines for this marking are:
- H for HTML 4.01 transitional or HTML5
- X for XHTML 1.0 transitional or XHTML5
- XH for plugins, templates or other add-ons that will validate in both markup-languages.
This marking should be placed in upper case at the end of the download name of plugins or templates, e.g.:
- my_plugin_XH.zip
- my_template_H.zip
- my_addon_X.zip
Sometimes there may be valid reasons to renounce validation, especially in multimedia or some CSS-specific projects. If it's reasonable and well documented, the download/link will be accepted also.
We just want to eliminate the disregard of web standards.
How to make your plugin or template ready for this requirement is explained in our WIKI.