On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, David Graham wrote:

> Ok, what do you think about a boolean "cdata" attribute for the javascript
> tag?  I think this will accomodate everyone's needs.

You mean add a "violate the spec to keep some browsers happy" attribute?
-1.

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> What do you mean that no browsers implement xhtml correctly?  What are they
> missing?  Opera writes its own pages in strict xhtml and their browser
> supports it.
>
> Dave
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> >From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: "Struts Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Re: xhtml javascript hiding methods
> >Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 23:04:45 -0800 (PST)
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> >On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, David Graham wrote:
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> > > Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 23:35:27 -0700
> > > From: David Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: xhtml javascript hiding methods
> > >
> > > Well, here are the choices as I understand them:
> > >
> > > 1.  Use CDATA to hide the javascript and make it completely useless in
> > > current browsers.
> > >
> > > 2.  Use a comment to hide the javascript which allows current browsers
> >to
> > > work and xml parsers.
> > >
> > > The xhtml spec does suggest using CDATA but I don't see a reason the
> >comment
> > > method won't work.
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> >If you are using XML-based technologies like XSLT to transform things to
> >create your output pages, the "commented out" text inside a <script>
> >element is going to get dropped on the floor.
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> >What I also don't understand is why anybody is worried about generating
> >XHTML markup for the current generation of popular browsers, none of which
> >implement it correctly ... but that's a different issue.
> >
> > > Dave
> >
> >Craig
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