On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Christian Funder Sommerlund (Zero3) <lists at zero3.dk> wrote: > Evan Daniel skrev: >> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Matthew Toseland >> <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: >>>> I see 4 basic options. ?First, we could wait for GWT to support XHTML. >>> Not a good option IMHO, although timing and priorities re merging and >>> enabling web-pushing are debatable... >> >> I assume Google hasn't commented on a time frame for XHTML support? >> I'm inclined to agree that we shouldn't wait on some unscheduled thing >> that may or may not happen. > > If http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=710 is > the issue you are talking about, then "Not currently feasible." :/
I really don't understand why the issue is the MIME type rather than the DOCTYPE, but yes, that's the issue. The comments about it being low priority seem to revolve around the fact that the user experience is degraded with XHTML, and therefore you shouldn't be using it anyway. Note the dates, though: that was the case in 2007, and even then it was clear that FF3 would change the situation. We're on FF3.5 now, and there's no reason to avoid XHTML from a rendering standpoint. XHTML can also do complex DOM manipulation through scripts; it just can't do it with document.write(). Evan Daniel
