[johnjohn]

I really don't understand why the entire storefront is wrapped in a Blockquote. It is not the proper use of blockquote and there are nesting issues within the templates.

BLOCKQUOTE at W3C: “BLOCKQUOTE is for long quotations (block-level content).”

I'm sure this is an oversight and I'm not trying to bash someone's hard work. Why was a div not sufficient? Also why the use of a non standard attribute? template="" is not acceptable.

I haven't the time to look closely, but what would occur if I removed the blockquotes and the non standard attribute from:
/core/class.templater.php

It seems to be the skins in 2.0 took a large step backwards. If anything, the skins should have been leaner and an improvement upon 1.3.5.

There is a lot of html and css bloat, they do not meet W3C standards and do not pass the most basic accessibility requirements. This makes customization and developing a solid product challenging and time consuming.

[TonyK]

What skin? i dont see this on the beta, default skin.

More info please.

[johnjohn]

It is in all 2.0 skins that I've looked at. Specifically 'Basic' and Austere'

In the source, this blockquote contains all content and other blockquotes are nested inside of it:

<blockquote class="cm-template-box" template="main.tpl" ...

Looking quickly, it appears that every hook creates a blockquote to contain the div containing the hook's content.

*btw, this is cscart_v2.0.3 stable release, not the beta version.

[baballuci]

It's because you've got 'design mode' switched on.

Disable customization mode and it'll go back to normal.

Admin -> Design -> 'design mode'

[johnjohn]

Thank-you Charlie!! I had no idea that the design mode was enabled. I knew the blockquotes had something to do with design mode and I'm so glad that is optional. Now the page validates!!