Due to the discussions and hope generated in the web world around HTML5 I too am switching back to HTML4.01 Strict. XHTML of whatever flavour seems to elicit mutterings of consternation, and there isn't a good enough reason to stick with it.
So, let's party like it's 1999 :0) Chris -----Original Message----- From: listdad@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Palinkas Sent: 16 February 2007 10:22 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Living With Legacy Thanks David, You're right. I phrased that incorrectly in my message. My apologies in giving the wrong impression. The comment reflects that the markup regardless of DTD is valid, and conforms to rules for semantics and accessibility. Frank -----Original Message----- From: listdad@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Dorward Sent: Friday, 16 February, 2007 12:00 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Living With Legacy On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 11:13:50AM +0200, Frank Palinkas wrote: > You'll probably think I'm completely bonkers, but after years of writing > XHTML 1.1 and its respective DTD with a MIME type of application/xhtml+xml, > I've switched back to using HTML 4.01 Strict with a MIME type of text/html. Bonkers? No. I switched back a few years ago. > I've entered a comment after the closing head element in each web page (just > getting started with that) stating that the markup conforms to the W3C > Recommendation for XHTML 1.1, and that the use of the HTML 4.01 DTD and MIME > type of text/html is for the benefit of legacy browser/user agents. The markup can't conform to both XHTML 1.1 and HTML 4.01 Strict. Since: (a) They have different Doctypes (b) HTML 4.01 doesn't use XML-style empty element tags (c) HTML doesn't have xmlns, but XHTML requires it (d) HTML has lang, XHTML 1.1 has xml:lang and for accessibility reasons this should be included. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
