Re: [WSG] Custom DTD's - MOVED TO DISCUSSION
Chris wrote: Ben if this thread is on topic why is the discussions being moved to another forum? This topic has the potential to be beneficial to the list. Currently, the discussion is spurious. Until it moves beyond personal opinion and misinformation, it probably shouldn't burden list member's mailboxes. The Discussion Room allows such topics to be nutted out in great detail without affecting those not interested. If anything useful results, we can post a summary back to the list. Regards, Ben * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *
Re: [WSG] Custom DTD's - MOVED TO DISCUSSION
Ben if this thread is on topic why is the discussions being moved to another forum? Chris On 30/04/2004, at 9:58 AM, Ben Bishop wrote: Nelson Ford wrote: I've seen more and more of this fiddling with DTD's lately, and I'm not sure it is a wise thing for us to be going off the standard in order to bring back the target attribute I completely agree that "bringing back" deprecated functionality isn't an ideal solution. W3C have made provisions for this with the Legacy module. Target has not be deprecated, simply relegated to its own module for inclusion as/if needed. Target does have valid use for documents that will be included in frames. By including XHTML modules, you aren't bastardising/mutating the standard, you are using the standard. I'd really like to see a discussion on this XHTML extensions/personal DTD issue. While this is absolutely on-topic, we'll have more room to discuss it at http://discuss.webstandardsgroup.org/archives/14.htm We can post any valuable findings back to the list. Cheers, Ben * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help * * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *
Re: [WSG] Custom DTD's - MOVED TO DISCUSSION
Nelson Ford wrote: I've seen more and more of this fiddling with DTD's lately, and I'm not sure it is a wise thing for us to be going off the standard in order to bring back the target attribute I completely agree that "bringing back" deprecated functionality isn't an ideal solution. W3C have made provisions for this with the Legacy module. Target has not be deprecated, simply relegated to its own module for inclusion as/if needed. Target does have valid use for documents that will be included in frames. By including XHTML modules, you aren't bastardising/mutating the standard, you are using the standard. I'd really like to see a discussion on this XHTML extensions/personal DTD issue. While this is absolutely on-topic, we'll have more room to discuss it at http://discuss.webstandardsgroup.org/archives/14.htm We can post any valuable findings back to the list. Cheers, Ben * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *