Magento

What’s with the short open tags in your templates? I don’t even think PHP6 is going to support short open tags and a good amount of servers don’t support them either. I’d lose those ASAP.

Short tags make template code looks tidy and clean and a great convenience for HTML developer.

They are not going to be deprecated:
http://www.php.net/~derick/meeting-notes.html (chapter 6.7)

The flag that turns them off on servers is easily overrided by .htaccess or local php.ini

apparently a number of hosts are refusing to turn on short tags, or allow the over riding of the short tags flag due to a conflict with the XML opening tag, unfortunately my host is one of these such hosts.

Any ideas on how i can get around it short of moving hosts? I could of course change them manually myself, but that would make updating a nightmare, and wouldn’t be very practical.

I would like to use magento, it seems like its shaping up to be a great ecommerce solution, well from what i can see, can’t say I’ve used it, bit of a problem with short tags!

Are there plans to maybe sacrifice some template prettiness for increased compatibility? Who knows how many more people this will begin to effect in the future.