Stop using the align tag

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The align property is now depreciated by wc3, however xinha still uses this for formatting how images and other elements are aligned. Is there any way that this could be done using css rules instead to create html which complies with wc3? I'm willing to work on it, but I will need some pointers on where to get started.

[gogo]

Could be done, probably. For Images then the ImageManager plugin (and others like it) is where it would be fixed, for tables, the TableOperations plugin.

Still it's possible though that the browser is going to make the odd align tag on it's own. Xinha is only really intended for your typcal Tag Soup until browsers pick up thier act at least.

[guest]

I bundled many of these changes into some work I was doing on related xhtml issues, please see Ticket #1179.

Cheers!

-- Troy

[ray]

The changes in #1179 do not target the produced HTML, but only the HTML used in dialogs, so that's not really related

[gogo]

Inactive, closing.

For ImageManager this would be an easy job, just in ImageManager.js change where it sets img.align to be img.style.float (appropriately). I have not looked at TableOperations.

However, note that HTML edited by Xinha often ends up inside emails, and inside email clients inline style declaration (style="float:left") is pretty unreliable, while the old html attributes like align are generally OK. So if there was to be a change, it needs to be configurable.

I'm inclined to say that maybe we need Xinha.Config.useEmailSuitableHTML = true|false in general (see also Xinha.Config.7bitclean or something like that from distant memory).