This is a fairly retarded argument. Rails produces an XHTML transitional doctype, so it's all irrelevant.
If you want your own doctype, then type it in. It's not hard. Julian. ---------------------------------------------- Learn: http://sensei.zenunit.com/ Last updated 20-May-09 (Rails, Basic Unix) Blog: http://random8.zenunit.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/random8r On 27/05/2009, at 9:33 PM, Rimantas Liubertas wrote: > >> 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
