From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Aug 13 4:55:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3101937B408; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 04:55:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parv@worldnet.att.net) Received: from worldnet.att.net ([32.100.199.236]) by mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20010813115519.TCXL12706.mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net@worldnet.att.net>; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 11:55:19 +0000 Received: by worldnet.att.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 888EF50EEE; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 07:55:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 07:55:17 -0400 From: parv To: Nik Clayton Cc: f-doc Subject: Re: (website) move towards xhtml Message-ID: <20010813075517.A16251@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Nik Clayton , f-doc References: <20010812200925.A49266@moo.holy.cow> <20010813104836.X50182@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010813104836.X50182@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 10:48:36AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org this was, on the fateful occasion around Aug 13 05:48 -0400, sent by Nik Clayton > > On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 08:09:25PM -0400, parv wrote: > > is there any effort, either ongoing or in the planning, to move the > > web pages away from html & towards xhtml (at least conforming to > > xhtml-transitional dtd)? > > XHTML is something I'm dimly aware of, lurking on the horizon, but it's > not something I've done any serious investigation of. > > What would be the benefits / disadvantages of using XHTML? (please feel free to replace "we" w/ "i" as you like.) disadvantages: - fix up needed for lonely tags like 'br' or 'hr' as in
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that space before '/' is there so that current browsers supporting html 3/4 don't go totally out of whack. (adapted from w3c publications). - changes won't be noticeable until browsers themselves start supporting xhtml; until then web servers will need to present xhtml files as if they are html files. advantages: - w3c's update of html 4.x; html 4 has been deprecated in favor of xhtml. (inferred from the 1st link below) - xhtml-strict dtd takes us towards xml; in the end will fit much more nicely w/ css than existing html (again w3c propaganda)... but who knows what else would have, or have not, had happened by then? personal motivation is both deprecation of html & easy (to implement) solutions to above 2 disadvantages; turn a knob in apache (even in htaccess), write an easy short lazy perl program, and we are done. ( actually, shouldn't the lone tags be taken care of properly when the source documentations are already in sgml? or, are we using non-strict dtds and/or their enforcement? ) for more info you can always visit w3c, of course... http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/xhtml-roadmap/ -- so, do you like word games or scrabble? - parv To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message