On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Joshua Slive wrote: > On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, James Sutherland wrote: > > > Here's a simple patch which makes the default front page (English > > language) and the documentation index validate correctly. Nothing major, > > just lower-casing the tags and updating doctype. > > Hmmm... I'm not sure that I understand the point. Most of the > HTML included with Apache validates just fine as HTML 3.2. > Given that we don't use any XHTML features, why does it matter > that we don't validate as XHTML?
It doesn't have to be XHTML, but if we can validate cleanly as XHTML, why not? > Maybe someone might want to take a big stick like htmltidy > to the 2.0 docs and convert them all to XHTML, but I'm not > sure I see the point in doing this for the 1.3 docs. Can you clarify what > this gains us? It doesn't add any wonderful new features, admittedly - I started out just making sure the pages would validate properly as something. Since simply lower-casing the tags made them valid XHTML, why not set the doctypes accordingly? James.
