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Re: Web headers
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 12:12:40PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> > It makes the page valid XHTML, which I expect is more important than
> > strict HTML 4.0 compliance since that's the standard moving forward.
>
> The bug would be that, since we're moving to XHTML, the DOCTYPE header in
> style.mhtml is an HTML 4.0 one rather than an XHTML one. (contribute.html
> includes the appropriate XHTML header.)
No one's done validation on all the existing web pages to make sure
they are correct XHTML. Browsers seem to be happy with XHTML <tag />
notation in a document marked as plain HTML, but they may not accept
the other way around.
Also, I believe there were concerns about browsers giving up
completely when faced with a DOCTYPE they didn't understand, or the
required <?xml ...?> header.
[myself, I'd be quite happy to see us go whole hog for strict XHTML
and style sheeting.]
zw