2006/12/8, Ricky Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > why go against recommendations when > there's another perfectly valid standard that we can follow?
At some point HTML4 will not be supported by browsers any more. That might be far away, but another standard that does exist and may be soon (1-2 years) be much better than HTML4. We then will not have to go through a conversion process which would sure be painful. HTML4 is a dead end that will for some more years but has many disadvantages (parsing, no xml compatibility) that will be more and more visibile. To see the whole website issue just from the point of today is a bit shortsighted. I would agree that if we want to present one page for TODAY sure HTML4 would be more optimal. But the thing is that we are going to build a huge website where we do not want to change course maybe when we do not want it. The change of mime-type is a simple web server setting that can be changed in seconds - to convert from HTML4 to XHTML could take weeks or months, because there is no easy conversion. We would have to make a HTML that is quasi XHTML (more than strict). > > My view is: the whole HTML/web thing keeps being a mess, no matter > > what you do. So it is not possible to make thing 100% perfect. > Why not just aim for as perfect as possible In my experience if you try that only leeds to complications and is very time consuming (to cancel the last 2% of bugs from 98%). It is much better to farsighted and advance in some aspects, so you can concentrate on other things in some years. The CMS is taking a lot of ressources now and I think it should not do so in the future. The only argument that I've seen from you is that sending XHTML as text/html would be necessary (not having IE to ignore the pages) but not following the recommendations. I have not seen one fact to which problems using XHTML that is not interpreted 100% as this would lead. The only thing I have found is that you can NOT assume UTF-8 as the default and have to set it in the page, which is anyway a good idea. So from my part i think we can close this thread as no new arguments are exchanged. Thilo -- Blog: http://vinci.wordpress.com Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig _______________________________________________ gnome-web-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-web-list
