> Wow, where to begin? Your references are very interesting, but as I > read them, it seems to me that their authors have leapt to conclusions > from a farrago of spurious "facts" and unwarranted assumptions.
You can begin by reading apropriate specifications and trying things out. Then you will very well see how "unwarranted" those assumptions are. >> It is very unfortunate, that RoR chose this path. Especially now, >> when some may want to use HTML5. > > HTML 5 supports at least some of the XML-style syntax, including things > like "<br/>", so I wonder how much of a problem this would be in > practice. HTML5 supports two different modes of serialization. Once again using XML brings nothing to the table if you use text/html. > I'll try to write a detailed explanation of why your references *really* > don't impress me, but for now let me just say that while they provide > some interesting information on the issues involved, I do not think that > they have sufficient credibility for their recommendations to be worth > following. Well, even if names of Anne van Kesteren (Opera), Ian Hickson(Google, author and maintainer of Acid2 and Acid3 tests, editor of HTML5 spec), Lachlan Hunt (Opera), Roger Johansson (prominent web standards advocate) are not credible enough, you can always try for yourself and see. I've done that five years ago: http://rimantas.com/bits/xhtml-test.php It is trivial to test if DOCTYPE affects if page is processed with HTML or XHTML parser (it doesn't) or is it only influenced by MIME type (it is). Also it is not difficult to see that in XHTML mode CSS may be interpreted differently, Javascript is affected (just try to add line if (x<y) in your Javascript, do not escape it with CDATA and serve with application/xhtml+xml. You will see what I am talking about. Or try to wrap your JS code with <!-- //--> and see if it runs at all). Regards, Rimantas -- http://rimantas.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
