Re: DOCTYPE

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:03:45 +0100, Jonas Werres <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

HTML 4.01 Strict(!) is still the document type of choice in most cases.

NACK. Since HTML incontrast to XHTML allows some very strange things, XHTML is much easier to debug using a validator. Indeed, most of the stuff (except some specialties like checked="checked", <br /> ...) sane people are using in HTML is already XHTML.
Defining it als XHTML has the advantage, that constructions that are commonly mistakes but are valid will be found by the validator.

Writing HTML strict is at least as easy as XHTML, and easily validated. Some major browser whose name shall not be mentioned still doesn't support real XHTML, untill then there's no good reason to use XHTML. The XHTML hype is past us, most serious HTML developers/designers are back to HTML strict as using XHTML little to no advantages due to browser's implementation. It's been shelved as 'could be usefull in the future, certainly not now'. Even the w3c have kind of given up on it, and focus more on HTML5 then XHTML2.

I'd be curious as to what 'constructions that are commonly mistakes but are valid' are more easily found in XHTML then HTML, care to give an example?

Offcourse, I'd love to use SVG or MathML in pages. Support is sadly lacking.
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Rik Wasmus
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