Please no more E-Mails -----Original Message----- From: Marcus (OOo) [mailto:marcus.m...@wtnet.de] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 7:10 PM To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Doctype of websites
Am 03/15/2012 04:41 PM, schrieb Christian Lohmaier: > Hi Dave, *, > > probably one of my last messages on the list since I'll be gone with > the forwarder.. (so assume I will not read replies tomorrow/whenever > the switch is flipped) > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Dave Fisher<dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote: >> On Mar 15, 2012, at 7:37 AM, Rob Weir wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Dave Fisher<dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote: >>>> On Mar 15, 2012, at 12:22 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: >> [...] >>>>>> Well sort of. If you look at the actual document on the site >>>>>> you will probably find it contains an XHTML doctype even now. > > Old OOo pages were xhtml transitional, that is correct. And at least > the www.openoffice.org and de.openoffice.org pages were fully valid > (according to the w3c validator) > > CollabNet Enterprise Edition (that was used before Kenai, and after > SourceCast (the old name of older version of CollabNet Enterprise > Edition that was used even earlier) did as well ignore the doctype and > other meta-tags, but merged title and meta tags into the overall > templating system. > So all pages were delivered as xhtml - of course that didn't make them > valid, but that means that they worked for the users and editors with > that doctype. > >> [...] >> I think that ssi.mdtext should add a line like: >> >> doctype:<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> > > Please don't turn back the wheel of time. If you want to make a > unification, then I suggest you either user xhtml transitional, or > make the step to html5 right away as default. +1 I've tried hard to make at least the download webpages W3C conform (error and warning free) with xhtml doctype. Unfortunately, after the migration to Apache this is no longer visible: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=www.openoffice.org/download/index.html New game, new work. ;-) So, would be great to keep the more modern direction. Marcus
