Re: [HACKERS] FAQ/HTML standard?

2005-09-11 Thread Jochem van Dieten
On 9/11/05, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 14:31:06 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: XHTML is simply a minimal reformulation of HTML in XML, and even uses the HTML 4.01 definitions for its semantics. Given that, it's hard to see why it should be considered a bad thing. Here is

Re: [HACKERS] FAQ/HTML standard?

2005-09-11 Thread Robert Treat
On Saturday 10 September 2005 12:10, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Is there an HTML standard that we try to follow in our HTML docs such as FAQs? If there isn't an explicit standard, may I suggest that we adopt XHTML 1.0 as the standard? Really the FAQ files need to be able to validate when viewed

[HACKERS] FAQ/HTML standard?

2005-09-10 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Is there an HTML standard that we try to follow in our HTML docs such as FAQs? If there isn't an explicit standard, may I suggest that we adopt XHTML 1.0 as the standard? Also, I notice non-breaking spaces inserted in apparently odd spots in FAQ_MINGW.html - is there a particular reason

Re: [HACKERS] FAQ/HTML standard?

2005-09-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 12:10:19 -0400, Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an HTML standard that we try to follow in our HTML docs such as FAQs? If there isn't an explicit standard, may I suggest that we adopt XHTML 1.0 as the standard? I ran accross an article a few

Re: [HACKERS] FAQ/HTML standard?

2005-09-10 Thread Jeff MacDonald
On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 12:59 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 12:10:19 -0400, Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an HTML standard that we try to follow in our HTML docs such as FAQs? If there isn't an explicit standard, may I suggest that we adopt

Re: [HACKERS] FAQ/HTML standard?

2005-09-10 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 12:10:19 -0400, Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an HTML standard that we try to follow in our HTML docs such as FAQs? If there isn't an explicit standard, may I suggest that we adopt XHTML 1.0 as the standard? I

Re: [HACKERS] FAQ/HTML standard?

2005-09-10 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Am Samstag, den 10.09.2005, 12:59 -0500 schrieb Bruno Wolff III: On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 12:10:19 -0400, Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an HTML standard that we try to follow in our HTML docs such as FAQs? If there isn't an explicit standard, may I suggest that

Re: [HACKERS] FAQ/HTML standard?

2005-09-10 Thread Neil Conway
Bruno Wolff III wrote: I ran accross an article a few weeks ago that suggested that this wasn't all that great of an idea. Using HTML 4.01 should be just as useful. Is there a reason why the FAQ can't be in DocBook, like the rest of the documentation? That would allow multiple output formats

Re: [HACKERS] FAQ/HTML standard?

2005-09-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 14:31:06 -0400, Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 12:10:19 -0400, Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an HTML standard that we try to follow in our HTML docs such as FAQs? If there

Re: [HACKERS] FAQ/HTML standard?

2005-09-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruno Wolff III wrote: XHTML is simply a minimal reformulation of HTML in XML, and even uses the HTML 4.01 definitions for its semantics. Given that, it's hard to see why it should be considered a bad thing. Here is the article: http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml While I believe that the

Re: [HACKERS] FAQ/HTML standard?

2005-09-10 Thread James William Pye
On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 17:12 -0400, Neil Conway wrote: Bruno Wolff III wrote: I ran accross an article a few weeks ago that suggested that this wasn't all that great of an idea. Using HTML 4.01 should be just as useful. Is there a reason why the FAQ can't be in DocBook, like the rest of the

Re: [HACKERS] FAQ/HTML standard?

2005-09-10 Thread Petr Jelinek
Bruno Wolff III wrote: Here is the article: http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml XHTML 1.0 pages has no problems with displaying when sent as text/html and they are better served as text/html because stupid IE won't show it right when you set mime type to application/xhtml+xml. So if you

Re: [HACKERS] FAQ/HTML standard?

2005-09-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 00:56:11 +0200, Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruno Wolff III wrote: XHTML is simply a minimal reformulation of HTML in XML, and even uses the HTML 4.01 definitions for its semantics. Given that, it's hard to see why it should be considered a bad