Tools

This section reviews some of the tools available to the web developer.

HTML Validation

HTML validation can be done through the W3.org validator .

Symbolic Links

Symbolic links may be made on most systems these days. To do so on windows use the following

mklink /J TARGET SOURCE

While linux users should employ

ln -s source target

Note

Originally the templates where made available to the projects one was sorking on by symbolic links. This made the same files available to multiple projects with different requirements and proved to be very inflexible and prompted the proper packaging of these templates.

Crimson Editor

The Jinja template is generated from the Django template by copying it and performing the following substitutions.

    {%([^%]*)%}     ->      {{'{%\1%}'}}
regular expression      replacement pattern

Note

The regular expression and assosciated pattern are specific to crimson editor.