Re: Web headers

[Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Joe Buck wrote:
> Gerald has done some validation, but to really have correct XHTML the
> DOCTYPE should be present.

Right.  And while I have been trying to push XHTML for modifications and
new pages (and cleaned up old stuff whenever I've been doing work "around
the corner"), we still have lots of old pages.

Verifying and updating all of these would be quite a lot of work, as far
as I can see.

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Observationally speaking, the _only_ thing on most of the webpages
> that isn't strict XHTML (after cleanup) is the <h1 align="center">
> tag.  Convert that to <h1 style="text-align: center"> or whatever the
> CSS is, and the effect will be that some browsers don't center the H1
> content.  No great loss.

Actually, now that we have redefined <h1> in style.mhtml, all occurrences
of <h1 align="center"> everywhere else could/should be changed to plain
<h1>, as you had suggested.  (Preapproved, by the way <hint><hint>!)

> I've been playing with CSS for more serious layout (replacing tables
> with it) on my own webpages.

Do you have an URL handy?

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>> I would recommend only going for "XHMTL 1.0 Transitional".
> I agree.

Definitely. XHTML 1.0 Strict is really a bit too ambitious for us, for the
foreseeable future at least. ;-)

> For other reasons, we've done a fair amount of playing around with
> various browsers, and XHTML 1.0 Transitional seems to work pretty well
> with moderately recent versions of IE, Netscape, and Mozilla.  I
> have not, however, tried Lynx to make sure that works OK, which is
> probably important.

I have also tried it with Lynx, and it seems to work pretty well.

Gerald
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