On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: > 5 minutes ago, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: >> > >> > OK, I changed it -- but here are some of the points that made me >> > think that `html' is the right choice: >> >> Here's one more (and IMHO more significant) point: XHTML is on the >> way out as a web technology. In particular, HTML5 is treating the >> whole HTML-in-XML idea as mostly failed and continuing without >> paying it much attention. For more details, see: >> http://dev.w3.org/html5/html4-differences/#syntax >> and >> http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/HTML_vs._XHTML > > [Wait -- you mean that xhtml is the following standard to html4, but > then the even newer html5 dumps all that work and re-starts from html4 > with artificial compatibility to xhmlt?? What kind of twisted > standard does that make??]
Roughly, XHTML = HTML4 in XML syntax, and then the XHTML people wanted to evolve in a direction that no one on the web actually wanted, and got lost in standards-ese. The browser vendors then started a new standards effort, which does a lot of things, including dumping the idea of errors for invalid documents in favor of specifying error behavior. That's HTML5. As a sop to people who care about HTML-in-XML-syntax, they've defined an encoding in XML syntax, but the people who run HTML5 don't care. Lots more history is available here (from the HTML5 perspective): http://diveintohtml5.org/past.html Everyone should read this as a history-of-technology and the perils (and importance) of standards. > In any case, that sounds like it will be desirable to move it back to > `html' in the not-so-far future, and then renaming the new collection > will make even less sense. Sounds like I should go back to `html' > then. If you're planning to serve things under the text/html mime type (which racket-lang.org currently does, for example) then it should definitely be called `html'. -- sam th sa...@ccs.neu.edu _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
