See reply below: On 11/3/07, Martijn Dashorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think this change is controversial: several people have voiced their > concerns regarding this change. It is something we have been opposed > to until very recently (label with <span/>). You propose to change > markup that is outside Wicket's control, I think that is a slippery > slope and I advise against it, hence my -0.9. > > A <div /> does have a different meaning in XML versus HTML. We > shouldn't just go about and muck things up. > > I've done some digging in firefox's bugzilla and found: > - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327637 > - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369609 > - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135425 > > where the first 2 are marked as dupes for the last one. > > After reading this and the firefox developers I think the <div /> > element used in these cases is a user bug, and therefore my comparison > to fixing spelling errors still holds. > > Does this buggy behavior still exist when you serve the page as XML? It exists when you serve it as xhtml document. However not with xml header, as I stated before, xml header is unusable. Unfortunately.
> > So if you go ahead make sure it works for XML, XHTML and HTML documents. I don't see what possibly it could break. For xml and xhtml document, <div /> and <div></div> are semantically equivalent. For html documents <div /> is an error, however if we replace it with <div></div> the error is corrected. I think the practical approach is justified here. Most of people are using xhtml doctype. What good is xhtml doctype when you can't have valid xml tags in document? I wish we could just set the mime type to text/xml and the problem would be gone. But text/xml doesn't work in internet explorer and that is hardly a fact that you can ignore. So the only way of serving xhtml files is with html header. I know this is a browsers problem but if we used that as excuse every time we wouldn't get anywhere. Part of web framework responsibility is to shield user from inconsistencies like this. -Matej > > Martijn > > -- > Buy Wicket in Action: http://manning.com/dashorst > Apache Wicket 1.3.0-beta4 is released > Get it now: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.3.0-beta4/ >
