Jürgen Ragaller wrote:
Hi, Jörn
Am 16.11.2007 um 13:01 schrieb Jörn Nettingsmeier:
over my very dead corpse.
if a certain software vendor cannot be bothered to provide the most
trivial bugfixes and read a f"$§%ing spec, that's really not our problem.
anyone with half a brain can download and understand the relevant
standards documents, and if the world's largest pile of software
engineers can't be bothered, well, tough luck for their users.
Just to make shure we don't misunderstand each other on this one.
The removing of the xml declaration (remove only <?xml version="1.0"
encoding="UTF-8"?>) would not make the page invalid:
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.webstandards.org%2F
sigh. you are of course right, the xml declaration is not mandatory.
but it does provide a very unambigous hint as to xml version and
encoding that makes a whole lot more sense than those grafted-on <meta/>
tags with their "; content-encoding=FOO". and there is absolutely no
excuse whatsoever to change one's parsing behaviour depending on this
processing instruction. if it were, the instruction should say <?IE
createAFsckingMessOfMyCode="yes"?>.
well, i don't want to punish IE users (although somebody should do it,
someday), and much less fellow admins who have to get their jobs done.
if it can be demonstrated that the xml declaration can be omitted
without the slightest bit of regression in xml-conformant browsers
(including the encoding setting), then well, let's omit it and wait for
microsoft and the last of their broken browsers to die of old age.
should be any day now :)
or maybe we could resurrect a server-side browser selector and use two
different xhtml serializers. but this would imply having a centralized
final transformation step in the global sitemap, unless we want to
duplicate this selector all over the place. i have put a patch in
bugzilla a while ago that tries to accomplish this, but it does so by
breaking all badly modularized features (bxe, webdav and some other
ad-hoc stuff currently in the default pub sitemap).
--
Jörn Nettingsmeier
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
- Ken Thompson.
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