Re: [whatwg] Configure Apache to send the right MIME type for XHTML

2007-03-08 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:04:20 +0100, Michael Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One downside of using HTML is that errors in the document can cause odd behaviour and can be harder to track down than errors in XML/XHTML. Using an HTML4 validator or HTML5 conformance checker to ensure that the

Re: [whatwg] base versus xml:base

2007-03-08 Thread Keryx Web
Simon Pieters wrote: A conforming XHTML 1.0 document must conform to the DTD, which effectively disallows xml:base and a whole bunch of other things (including, say, namespace prefixes). http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#strict I am moving this discussion to the help list, as it is more

Re: [whatwg] Configure Apache to send the right MIME type for XHTML

2007-03-08 Thread Keryx Web
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis skrev: When I talked to WebKit developers about this, it seemed they considered their support for real XHTML less reliable than their support for HTML at that point. So while Safari's Accept header may be suboptimal, there's nothing terribly wrong with interpreting it the

Re: [whatwg] Using the HTML5 DOCTYPE as a new quirksmode switch

2007-03-08 Thread Asbjørn Ulsberg
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:30:05 +0100, Anne van Kesteren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I suppose that could work. Cool. So do I. :) FYI: my site is still .nl: http://annevankesteren.nl/2004/06/standard-compliant-ie Yea, sorry. And thanks for the pointer to the old discussion. --

Re: [whatwg] Should address be more general-purpose?

2007-03-08 Thread fantasai
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: An author element might kill several of these birds with one stone. I'd rather see an attribution element than an author element. It is more generally useful. ~fantasai

Re: [whatwg] Configure Apache to send the right MIME type for XHTML

2007-03-08 Thread ryan king
On Mar 7, 2007, at 7:09 AM, Michael(tm) Smith wrote: ... Amen. It's really amusing to see people continuing to trot out matter-of-fact statements dismissing XHTML. Those statements seem to fall into two basic types that can be paraphrased as either: - The only people who author documents

Re: [whatwg] Should address be more general-purpose?

2007-03-08 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
fantasai wrote: I'd rather see an attribution element than an author element. It is more generally useful. Can you explain what the difference would be? Would an attribution element include copyright holders as opposed to creators? If so, I think bundling them together makes gathering citation