mercurial/crew at 7727: 18 outgoing changesets

[Sune Foldager]

Martin Geisler wrote:

>> http://hg.intevation.org/mercurial/crew/rev/6a888d491eaf
>> changeset:   7725:6a888d491eaf
>> user:        Benoit Allard <benoit at aeteurope.nl>
>> date:        Thu Feb 05 18:15:33 2009 +0100
>> summary:     coal/paper: switch to XHTML 1.1

>Are we sure we want this?
>
>I'm not a big webdesigner, but I have tried to follow along from the
>sideline, and it is my understanding that many sites chose to generate
>strict HTML 4 since this is the best understood variant.
>
>One problem with XHTML is what content-type to use, the web tells me
>that the "correct" type breaks IE.
>
>With the current template system it should be just as easy to generate
>correct HTML 4 as correct XHTML -- the individual files in the
>template wont validate anyway.

I agree with Martin; XHTML is not widely supported, since an incorrect
mime-type must be used for IE and maybe other browsers to read it. They end
up in a quirky mode anyway, so I think we're better off with HTML 4 for
sure. XHTML is just a nice buzz-word to add to 'XML' and the others before
you pitch something crappy to your manager ;-).

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Sune Foldager