> Just spoke with dbaron. While he didn't go into detail, the essence was
> that xhtml wasn't ready to serve mozilla.org. Quite what isn't ready
> (the specs or the clients) we didn't go into, although hints were made.
> Basically, it's a no-no in his opinion from what I could tell.
I think that if two of the most knowledgeable web standards people I know
say not to use XHTML, then that's good enough for me.
> > But the rendering is basically the same? It's not like IE 5 for
> > Mac/Windows. Right?
>
> From what I have heard, even tables render differently in IE3/4/5. From
> the conversation I had with Dawn Endico Sunday evening, I think she will
> accept HTML 4.01 Strict with CSS providing Netscape 4.x gets a reduced
> stylesheet that does not expose the layout bugs in it, or none at all.
>
> I *think* I can get her to accept CSS onto the site providing Navigator
> 4.x across all platforms gets sent html/css that still renders the page
> 'prettily' even if it's quite basic. She really worried me when she
> hinted that no css at all would be preferable... but I'll work on that
> front :)
I think that this would be the ideal.
Henri Sivonen has just written an HTML 4.01-compliant version of the
wrapper. You should be able to find the patches soon in
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64932 . This demonstrates that
we can do a lot which works even in Netscape 4.x. It uses a site-wide
style sheet, which we could add a few more things to to provide us with
functionality for marking up the actual content.
Gerv
