Simon Willison wrote: > On Sep 26, 10:17 am, Max Battcher <m...@worldmaker.net> wrote: >> Furthermore, support for XHTML "5" (which is indeed a part of the HTML 5 >> standard) shows that XHTML 1's principles are still around and still >> respected. Django's XHTML output can't be "out of date" if XHTML 5 is >> considered a successor to XHTML 1. > > Opinions differ, but in the interest of keeping this thread about HTML > support in Django I'm going to leave that discussion here - let's > assume that it would be a Good Thing for Django should provide support > for outputting both HTML and XHTML, and focus on how we can achieve > that.
But I'm not sure that is a correct assertion. I don't think there is a strong enough difference between HTML and the XHTML that Django generates for there to be a need for more complicated mechanisms of rendering. If the only point of contention is self-closing tags (<tag />), then HTML 4 might not support it explicitly (although in fact most modern browsers support it implicitly), but HTML 5 (the HTML form factor, not just XHTML 5) explicitly supports self-closing tags: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#start-tags Under Section 9.1.2.1 -- Start Tags, I quote: 6. Then, if the element is one of the void elements, or if the element is a foreign element, then there may be a single U+002F SOLIDUS (/) character. This character has no effect on void elements, but on foreign elements it marks the start tag as self-closing. I really don't see what the fuss here is about. If we are worried about forwards-compatibility, HTML 5 takes care of it. If we are worried about better backwards-compatibility with HTML 4, everyone else is saying that the future is now and the focus should be HTML 5... What is this argument really about? -- --Max Battcher-- http://worldmaker.net --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
