From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 6 05:27:16 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 5586F37B401; Sun, 6 Apr 2003 05:27:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx0.freebsd-services.com (survey.codeburst.net [195.149.39.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2CAD43FD7; Sun, 6 Apr 2003 05:27:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@freebsd-services.com) Received: from [192.168.7.2] (freebsd.gotadsl.co.uk [81.6.249.198]) by mx0.freebsd-services.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25A011B213; Sun, 6 Apr 2003 13:27:14 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Richards To: Ceri Davies In-Reply-To: <20030406095305.GB97856@submonkey.net> References: <20030405151719.GA75703@submonkey.net> <20030405134918.B43794@freebsdmall.com> <20030406095305.GB97856@submonkey.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: FreeBSD Services Ltd Message-Id: <1049631813.651.2.camel@cf.freebsd-services.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 06 Apr 2003 13:23:34 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Murray Stokely 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 12:27:16 -0000 On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 10:53, Ceri Davies wrote: > 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. It's maybe a bit pedantic but one of the strengths of this project has always been that we "do things right", therefore getting our website to be xhtml compliant is a worthy goal. Just as we try to keep our code up to the highest standards our web site should also match current web standards. It will have some benefits, if the pages pass validation tests then we can be sure that it renders correctly in all browsers that correctly implement the standards. -- Paul Richards FreeBSD Services Ltd