Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 13:22:44 +0100 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> Cc: www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Tags like <br/> and our current doctype Message-ID: <1109938964.3926.57.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20050304113539.GN27332@submonkey.net> References: <1109934321.3926.52.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050304113539.GN27332@submonkey.net>
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On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 11:35 +0000, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:05:21PM +0100, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > > >From what I recall, tags like <br> are self closing in the HTML 4.0 and > > 4.01 doctypes, i.e. <br /> is redundant and confuses (or is supposed to > > anyway) the parser into thinking the last tag was closed. > > > > However, if I change this to <br>, even with our doctype, it freaks out. > > I suppose that the parser doesn't really care what our doctype is, it > > just wants the content to be XML-compliant. > > > > <br> is XML compliant, if you have the right entity definition. > > > > So I see two possible options for the future: > > > > 1) Figure out how to make the parser like <br> and keep our current > > doctype (or upgrade to HTML 4.01/Strict), or > > > > 2) Hop over to XHTML 1.0/Transitional, which will allow us to utilize > > features of XHTML (and let us keep <br />, which is valid in XHTML) > > while still having our Content-type as text/html (this isn't allowed for > > any other XHTML doctype) > > #2 is best. I made a patch ages and ages ago for this (not a full > patchset, mind you) that might even vaguely apply still; search the > archives for a post from me with a subject containing "XHTML" and you > should find it. Well, it currently validates as XHTML. Just need to work out a couple quirks in the layout :) > At the time the response was a mixture of mild resistance and apathy, > however; it was felt that fixing this wasn't worth the CVS churn as I > recall (yes, that surprised me too). > > Ceri It had sure better be now! :) --Devon
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