Re: [WSG] XHTML Issues

2005-12-02 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Bert Doorn wrote: I code in xhtml Strict and serve it as text/html. My code is future-proof, valid and well structured. Future proof from what? Do you really think any browser will ever drop support for HTML4? If I code in HTML4, there is less need for writing properly structured

Re: [WSG] XHTML Issues

2005-12-02 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
... I code in xhtml Strict and serve it as text/html. My code is future-proof, valid and well structured. If I code in HTML4, there is less need for writing properly structured documents. Too bad if quality of code depends on choice between HTML and XHTML. If at some point in the future

Re: [WSG] XHTML Issues

2005-12-02 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Rimantas Liubertas wrote: It is pretty easy to check, all we need is some online tool which, given an url can resend page's content with application/xhtml+xml. Then grab those XHTML pages and see what happens. Try Hixie's content-type proxy.

Re: [WSG] XHTML Issues

2005-12-02 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
2005/12/2, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Rimantas Liubertas wrote: It is pretty easy to check, all we need is some online tool which, given an url can resend page's content with application/xhtml+xml. Then grab those XHTML pages and see what happens. Try Hixie's content-type proxy.

Re: [WSG] XHTML Issues

2005-12-02 Thread Christian Montoya
On 12/2/05, Rimantas Liubertas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2005/12/2, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Rimantas Liubertas wrote: It is pretty easy to check, all we need is some online tool which, given an url can resend page's content with application/xhtml+xml. Then grab those XHTML

Re: [WSG] XHTML Issues

2005-12-02 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Christian Montoya wrote: 2005/12/2, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Try Hixie's content-type proxy. http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/cgi/content-type-proxy/content-type-proxy Is this a trick? hr at the bottom of the page prevents it from handling xml. Any sort of xml. Now how am I going to

Re: [WSG] XHTML Issues

2005-12-02 Thread Christian Montoya
On 12/2/05, Christian Montoya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/05, Rimantas Liubertas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2005/12/2, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Rimantas Liubertas wrote: It is pretty easy to check, all we need is some online tool which, given an url can resend page's

Re: [WSG] XHTML Issues (was: Re: editor)

2005-12-01 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Matthew Cruickshank wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/wrongWithIE/?chapter=XHTML ...if you use the ?xml? declaration..., then it will trigger quirks mode in IE6 Right... rather than jumping to conclusions I was just wanting to make sure you were telling a beginner at

Re: [WSG] XHTML Issues

2005-12-01 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
So, to summarise why you keep saying there's no support for XHTML in IE - not supporting XHTML's HTTP header, - not being able to put ?xml ... ? above the doctype, - the internal rendering engine being a tagsoup parser, rather than an XML parser. And therefore this means IE doesn't even have

Re: [WSG] XHTML Issues

2005-12-01 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day If you're not using the right MIME type, you may as well be using HTML4, as you're just relying on browsers error recovery techniques to understand XHTML. I code in xhtml Strict and serve it as text/html. My code is future-proof, valid and well structured. If I code in HTML4,