From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 6 01:53:06 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE69937B401; Sun, 6 Apr 2003 01:53:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from shrike.submonkey.net (pc1-cdif2-5-cust38.cdif.cable.ntl.com [81.101.150.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B33543FA3; Sun, 6 Apr 2003 01:53:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.12) id 1926pl-000PTT-00; Sun, 06 Apr 2003 10:53:05 +0100 Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 10:53:05 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: Murray Stokely Message-ID: <20030406095305.GB97856@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Murray Stokely , www@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org References: <20030405151719.GA75703@submonkey.net> <20030405134918.B43794@freebsdmall.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030405134918.B43794@freebsdmall.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Ceri Davies cc: doc@FreeBSD.org cc: www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: XHTML and the website X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 09:53:07 -0000 On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 01:49:18PM -0800, Murray Stokely wrote: > What are the benefits of the full transition? What cool new XML tools > will this allow us to use? How will this enhance the look and feel of > the website? etc.. I don't know that there would be any other benefits; all this would get us is a web site that validates. Perhaps someone else more familiar with the tools available could offer a suggestion, but in my opinion XHTML, by it's very nature, is lacking most of the benefits of XML anyway. [ Having said that, having XHTML documents that validate would be more useful than having ones that don't ;) ] > I'm not against it, but it seems like a lot of work that could be > better spent improving the Handbook or something if there aren't some > more apparent benefits. That's a fair point; since there's still work to be done before this can work properly anyway, I'll background it for now, but at some point I'd like to revisit this (ever since I noticed this it's been bugging me). Ceri --