RE: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-11 Thread Chris Taylor
From: cat soul Sent: 10 November 2010 23:32 Great! Most everyone else is saying HTML5 is 10 years off and not to code for it, not to worry about it until then. HTML5 as a finished, published spec may be 10 years off, but there are plenty of HTML5 features you can use right now with some

Re: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-11 Thread David Dorward
On 11 Nov 2010, at 09:18, Chris Taylor wrote: HTML5 as a finished, published spec may be 10 years off, but there are plenty of HTML5 features you can use right now with some careful handling of older (IE) browsers. The future is already among us. In fact, this is HTML5-style - !doctype

RE: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-11 Thread Chris Taylor
From: David Dorward Sent: 11 November 2010 10:30 On 11 Nov 2010, at 09:18, Chris Taylor wrote: In fact, this is HTML5-style - !doctype html - but will work fine in all browsers (as far as I know). When you come to perform basic QA using a validator, on the other hand, you get very

Re: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-11 Thread David Dorward
On 11 Nov 2010, at 10:50, Chris Taylor wrote: From: David Dorward Sent: 11 November 2010 10:30 On 11 Nov 2010, at 09:18, Chris Taylor wrote: In fact, this is HTML5-style - !doctype html - but will work fine in all browsers (as far as I know). When you come to perform basic QA using a

Re: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-11 Thread Micky Hulse
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Chris Taylor chris.tay...@figureout.com wrote: And there's Andy Clarke's new book Hardboiled Web Design which deals with HTML5 and more: http://hardboiledwebdesign.com/ So is HTML5 ready, as far as http://ishtml5readyyet.com/ sees it isn't the same as can I

Re: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-11 Thread cat soul
On Nov 11, 2010, at 9:31 AM, Micky Hulse wrote: I just finished reading HTML5 for web designers, and I thought it was a pretty good introduction to HTML5. http://books.alistapart.com/products/html5-for-web-designers An easy read. Very short book. Cheers, Micky I see that one of the choices

Re: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-11 Thread Micky Hulse
Howdy! On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:23 AM, cat soul cats...@thinkplan.org wrote: I see that one of the choices is the eBook form...can that be read on a Mac? Good question! Looks like the ebook includes PDF, ePub, and mobi formats. I am sure there are ePub readers on Mac. I usually don't mind

Re: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-11 Thread Micky Hulse
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Micky Hulse mickyhulse.li...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like the ebook includes PDF, ePub, and mobi formats. Looks like one of the chapters is online: A Brief History of Markup http://www.alistapart.com/articles/a-brief-history-of-markup/ I thought that chapter

Re: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-11 Thread wilbur . j . pereira
@webstandardsgroup.org Reply-to: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] XHTML or HTML? Howdy! On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:23 AM, cat soul cats...@thinkplan.org wrote: I see that one of the choices is the eBook form...can that be read on a Mac? Good question! Looks like the ebook includes PDF, ePub, and mobi

Re: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-11 Thread cat soul
On Nov 11, 2010, at 11:47 AM, Micky Hulse wrote: Howdy! On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:23 AM, cat soul cats...@thinkplan.org wrote: I see that one of the choices is the eBook form...can that be read on a Mac? Good question! Looks like the ebook includes PDF, ePub, and mobi formats. I am

Re: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-11 Thread Micky Hulse
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:01 PM, cat soul cats...@thinkplan.org wrote: thanks for that...I'll have to check it out. That title looks like a must-have...they offer another for CSS as well, endorsed by none other than Eric Meyer. Yah, I think I will pick that one up also! :) CSS3 For Web

RE: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-11 Thread Webb, KerryA
On 10 Nov 2010, at 22:34, cat soul wrote: Any thoughts on which we ought to be using HTML, since it works in IE 9 without having to pretend it is HTML. 4.01, since it is a stable recommendation with mature QA tools (unless you have a need for features added in HTML5 and are willing to

[WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-10 Thread cat soul
Any thoughts on which we ought to be using, and what information ought to be up at top of an HTML page, along with !DOCTYPE, etc? Thank you, cs *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

RE: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-10 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Any thoughts on which we ought to be using, and what information ought to be up at top of an HTML page, along with !DOCTYPE, etc? I'd go with !DOCTYPE html with nothing above that -- Regards, Thierry www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org | @thierrykoblentz

Re: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-10 Thread David Dorward
On 10 Nov 2010, at 22:34, cat soul wrote: Any thoughts on which we ought to be using HTML, since it works in IE 9 without having to pretend it is HTML. 4.01, since it is a stable recommendation with mature QA tools (unless you have a need for features added in HTML5 and are willing to life

RE: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-10 Thread Ted Drake
...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Thierry Koblentz Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 2:54 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] XHTML or HTML? Any thoughts on which we ought to be using, and what information ought to be up at top of an HTML page, along with !DOCTYPE, etc? I'd go with !DOCTYPE

Re: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-10 Thread Mathew Robertson
Here is a reasonably good example: http://www.texaswebdevelopers.com/blog/template_permalink.asp?id=136 http://www.texaswebdevelopers.com/blog/template_permalink.asp?id=136In particular, the 'dir' and 'lang' attributes - most people just assume that english is the only language... regards,

Re: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-10 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, cat soul wrote: Any thoughts on which we ought to be using, and what information ought to be up at top of an HTML page, along with !DOCTYPE, etc? The first line should be a doctype. I recommend either 4.01 strict or HTML5. !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD

Re: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-10 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:34 PM, cat soul cats...@thinkplan.org wrote: Any thoughts on which we ought to be using, To cut a _long_ story very short, if you have to ask this question, use HTML. See also: http://www.webdevout.net/articles/beware-of-xhtml

Re: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-10 Thread cat soul
On Nov 10, 2010, at 3:14 PM, Ted Drake wrote: Thierry's right. It's time to start making those baby steps into HTML5. But you'll also need to add your charset and lang definition !doctype html html lang=en head meta charset=UTF-8 Great! Most everyone else is saying HTML5 is 10

RE: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-10 Thread Ted Drake
Subject: Re: [WSG] XHTML or HTML? On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:34 PM, cat soul cats...@thinkplan.org wrote: Any thoughts on which we ought to be using, To cut a _long_ story very short, if you have to ask this question, use HTML. See also: http://www.webdevout.net/articles/beware-of-xhtml http

Re: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-10 Thread David Storey
On 11 Nov 2010, at 00:17, Mathew Robertson wrote: Here is a reasonably good example: http://www.texaswebdevelopers.com/blog/template_permalink.asp?id=136 In particular, the 'dir' and 'lang' attributes - most people just assume that english is the only language… dir isn’t needed unless

Re: [WSG] XHTML Standard question

2008-11-20 Thread Brett Patterson
OK. For the last almost 24 hours, I have been trying to get the link to the results posted on the server to work, but have failed miserably. The results were made public to subscribers of the newsletters they mail out every month. They have not yet decided to use the Internet to mail out the

[WSG] XHTML Standard question

2008-11-19 Thread Brett Patterson
I know that most, if not possible to say all, Web page designers use JavaScript for form validation. During a recent poll done by a few local colleges, 41.2% of the people who responded stated that they would rather not have to enable JavaScript, but on rare occasion they do for certain sites that

Re: [WSG] XHTML Standard question

2008-11-19 Thread Anthony Ziebell
Remember to use server side validation and you don't need to worry about rewriting standards :) Brett Patterson wrote: I know that most, if not possible to say all, Web page designers use _javascript_ for form validation. During a recent poll done by a few local colleges, 41.2% of the people

Re: [WSG] XHTML Standard question

2008-11-19 Thread Brett Patterson
OK. I had forgotten you could use server-side validation. Thanks. On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Anthony Ziebell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remember to use server side validation and you don't need to worry about rewriting standards :) Brett Patterson wrote: I know that most, if not

Re: [WSG] XHTML Standard question

2008-11-19 Thread Luke Hoggett
Hi, What was the poll and are the results publicly available? There is a difference in asking if a user would like to have javascript turned off and them actually having it turned off, check: http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2008/November/javas.php only 6% have it off, and many of these will

Re: [WSG] XHTML Standard question

2008-11-19 Thread Ben Buchanan
Therefore, I was wondering if it would be feasible to include a standard that would use a syntax similar (does not actually *have* to be this way) to selected=selected? In which case, the syntax would be required=required. Or, if it is an email input (i.e. Your e-mail address:input type=text

Re: [WSG] XHTML Standard question

2008-11-19 Thread Ben Buchanan
So exactly what behavior is mandated for UAs implementing HTML5 if a form is submitted with a 'required' element unsatisfied? If I'm reading http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#required0correctly, the form just won't submit if a required field is empty. Not sure about the UI

Re: [WSG] XHTML Strict and scrollable page content

2008-07-27 Thread Al Sparber
From: Bas V [EMAIL PROTECTED] I need to scroll a php/mysql generated list of text with url's within a page whilst using up-down arrows rather then a scrollbar. It needs however to be XHTML Strict valid and that is where my problem starts... A non-Strict example of how it exactly has to look

Re: [WSG] XHTML Strict and scrollable page content

2008-07-27 Thread sri ni
Try jQuery.. Thanks, Srini www.srinivasaperumal.com On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Bas V [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to scroll a php/mysql generated list of text with url's within a page whilst using up-down arrows rather then a scrollbar. It needs however to be XHTML Strict valid and

Re: [WSG] XHTML Strict and scrollable page content

2008-07-27 Thread sri ni
check following jQuery samples... http://www.nabble.com/jScrollPane:-horizontal-scroll-and-dynamic-height-width-td16312365s27240.html http://www.pixeline.be/test/markitup_bug/ http://kelvinluck.com/assets/jquery/jScrollPane/ajax_example.html Thanks, Srini Perumal User Interface / Web Standards

RE: [WSG] XHTML Strict and scrollable page content

2008-07-27 Thread Bas V
Thanks for the replies, much appreciated! There is plenty out there available I see, you just need to know where to look for it :) Cheers. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

[WSG] XHTML Strict and scrollable page content

2008-07-26 Thread Bas V
I need to scroll a php/mysql generated list of text with url's within a page whilst using up-down arrows rather then a scrollbar. It needs however to be XHTML Strict valid and that is where my problem starts... A non-Strict example of how it exactly has to look and work:

Re: [WSG] XHTML Strict and scrollable page content

2008-07-26 Thread sri ni
Try jQuery.. Thanks, Srini www.srinivasaperumal.com On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Bas V [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to scroll a php/mysql generated list of text with url's within a page whilst using up-down arrows rather then a scrollbar. It needs however to be XHTML Strict valid and

Re: [WSG] XHTML Strict and scrollable page content

2008-07-26 Thread Al Sparber
From: Bas V [EMAIL PROTECTED] I need to scroll a php/mysql generated list of text with url's within a page whilst using up-down arrows rather then a scrollbar. It needs however to be XHTML Strict valid and that is where my problem starts... A non-Strict example of how it exactly has to look

Re: [WSG] XHTML Strict and scrollable page content

2008-07-26 Thread sri ni
check following jQuery samples... http://www.nabble.com/jScrollPane:-horizontal-scroll-and-dynamic-height-width-td16312365s27240.html http://www.pixeline.be/test/markitup_bug/ http://kelvinluck.com/assets/jquery/jScrollPane/ajax_example.html Thanks, Srini Perumal User Interface / Web Standards

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 CSS3 - Is it worth using right now?

2008-05-14 Thread Dean Edridge
Dean Matthews wrote: On May 13, 2008, at 3:44 PM, dwain wrote: where is it and is it incorporated into firefox yet? dwain On 5/12/08, Dean Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 12, 2008, at 11:13 PM, dwain wrote: and if you are wanting valid css then css3 will throw up errors in the

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 CSS3 - Is it worth using right now?

2008-05-13 Thread David Dorward
On 13 May 2008, at 01:36, Nikita The Spider The Spider wrote: One big impediment to using XHTML 1.1 is that it must be sent with the application/xhtml+xml media type which makes IE6 choke. ... and IE7 and IE8. Adding support for XHTML hasn't been a priority for Microsoft (presumably

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 CSS3 - Is it worth using right now?

2008-05-13 Thread Thomas Thomassen
The Spider [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 2:36 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 CSS3 - Is it worth using right now? On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does anyone use XHTML 1.1 Of the doctypes that my validator

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 CSS3 - Is it worth using right now?

2008-05-13 Thread Thomas Thomassen
nature. - Original Message - From: Vlad Alexander (XStandard) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 4:57 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 CSS3 - Is it worth using right now? HTH wrote: ...server has to do content negotiation in order to send text

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 CSS3 - Is it worth using right now?

2008-05-13 Thread Nikita The Spider The Spider
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:57 PM, XStandard Vlad Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HTH wrote: ...server has to do content negotiation in order to send text/html with one doctype (HTML or XHTML 1.0) to IE users and application/xhtml+xml/XHTML 1.1 to everyone else. That means you're

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 CSS3 - Is it worth using right now?

2008-05-13 Thread dwain
where is it and is it incorporated into firefox yet? dwain On 5/12/08, Dean Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 12, 2008, at 11:13 PM, dwain wrote: and if you are wanting valid css then css3 will throw up errors in the w3c css validator. Not if you use the CSS level 3 validator

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 CSS3 - Is it worth using right now?

2008-05-13 Thread Nikita The Spider The Spider
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:17 PM, XStandard Vlad Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Nikita, Are you talking about putting an HTML doctype on XHTML 1.1-formatted code Yes, but normally you would put XHTML 1.1 markup into an template written for a different DOCTYPE as shown in this

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 CSS3 - Is it worth using right now?

2008-05-13 Thread Dean Matthews
On May 13, 2008, at 3:44 PM, dwain wrote: where is it and is it incorporated into firefox yet? dwain On 5/12/08, Dean Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 12, 2008, at 11:13 PM, dwain wrote: and if you are wanting valid css then css3 will throw up errors in the w3c css validator.

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 CSS3 - Is it worth using right now?

2008-05-13 Thread dwain
thanks for the info. cheers, dwain On 5/13/08, Dean Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 13, 2008, at 3:44 PM, dwain wrote: where is it and is it incorporated into firefox yet? dwain On 5/12/08, Dean Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 12, 2008, at 11:13 PM, dwain wrote:

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 CSS3 - Is it worth using right now?

2008-05-13 Thread James Pickering
From time to time over the past several years I have served web pages as XHTML 1.0 with content (MIME) type text/html to IE Browsers and with content (MIME) type application/xhtml+xml to Browsers that recognize that content type -- via Content Negotiation. My current Home Page --

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 CSS3 - Is it worth using right now?

2008-05-13 Thread XStandard
Nikita wrote: the example you provided isn't valid XHTML. I think you may have misunderstood. The example in this screen shot: http://xstandard.com/94E7EECB-E7CF-4122-A6AF-8F817AA53C78/html-layout-xhtml-content.gif .. shows how to embed XHTML 1.1 content into an HTML 4.01 Transitional page

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 CSS3 - Is it worth using right now?

2008-05-13 Thread Nikita The Spider The Spider
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:02 PM, XStandard Vlad Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikita wrote: the META tag would have to end in a / and then it wouldn't be valid HTML anymore. Sure it would. It may not be in the spec but it's a de facto standard. Even the W3C validator will accept

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 CSS3 - Is it worth using right now?

2008-05-13 Thread XStandard
Nikita wrote: I encourage you to try that with the W3C validator. You will not get the result you expect. Comes back as valid HTML, as I expected. The validator did flag / as warnings which it did not a few years back when the example was originally created. But W3C's validator warning

[WSG] XHTML 1.1 CSS3 - Is it worth using right now?

2008-05-12 Thread Simon
Hi, Does anyone use XHTML 1.1 and does it provide any benefits? I've read up on what the differences are but I was under the belief IE won't support it without a particular hack. Is there a reason why not many sites adopt this Doctype and is there any point using right now if your site is 1.0

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 CSS3 - Is it worth using right now?

2008-05-12 Thread David Storey
On 12 May 2008, at 22:42, Simon wrote: Hi, Does anyone use XHTML 1.1 and does it provide any benefits? I've read up on what the differences are but I was under the belief IE won't support it without a particular hack. Is there a reason why not many sites adopt this Doctype and is there

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 CSS3 - Is it worth using right now?

2008-05-12 Thread Nikita The Spider The Spider
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does anyone use XHTML 1.1 Of the doctypes that my validator Nikita saw in one sample period, just slightly over 2% were XHTML 1.1. It's worth noting that most, if not all, were sent with the wrong media type.

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 CSS3 - Is it worth using right now?

2008-05-12 Thread Ben Buchanan
Is there a reason why not many sites adopt this Doctype and is there any point using right now if your site is 1.0 Strict? Very very generally, I've found it's less critical which standard you use than whether your stuff validates in your chosen standard. Secondly, I see a lot of sites that

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 CSS3 - Is it worth using right now?

2008-05-12 Thread Andrew McGrath
One big impediment to using XHTML 1.1 is that it must be sent with the application/xhtml+xml media type which makes IE6 choke. That implies that the server has to do content negotiation in order to send text/html with one doctype (HTML or XHTML 1.0) to IE users and application/xhtml+xml/XHTML

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 CSS3 - Is it worth using right now?

2008-05-12 Thread XStandard
HTH wrote: ...server has to do content negotiation in order to send text/html with one doctype (HTML or XHTML 1.0) to IE users and application/xhtml+xml/XHTML 1.1 to everyone else. That means you're generating two copies of all of your content Assuming your are not writing static pages, you only

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 CSS3 - Is it worth using right now?

2008-05-12 Thread dwain
and if you are wanting valid css then css3 will throw up errors in the w3c css validator. dwain *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 CSS3 - Is it worth using right now?

2008-05-12 Thread Dean Matthews
On May 12, 2008, at 11:13 PM, dwain wrote: and if you are wanting valid css then css3 will throw up errors in the w3c css validator. Not if you use the CSS level 3 validator ;) *** List Guidelines:

RE: [WSG] XHTML+Voice

2007-09-10 Thread Mohamed Jama
-- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tee G. Peng Sent: 08 September 2007 04:35 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] XHTML+Voice Hi Philippe, a quick question before I forgot to ask. A bit off-topic: yes I use VoiceOver sometimes

[WSG] XHTML+Voice

2007-09-07 Thread Tee G. Peng
Has anybody done this on your (and client) site yet? It's showing up on Opera site, so I reckon it's supported for 9.50 Alpha? And Safri Beta 3 too? http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/xhtml-voice-by-example/ tee *** List

Re: [WSG] XHTML+Voice

2007-09-07 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Sep 8, 2007, at 9:32 AM, Tee G. Peng wrote: It's showing up on Opera site, so I reckon it's supported for 9.50 Alpha? And Safri Beta 3 too? http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/xhtml-voice-by-example/ That page doesn't work as described on Safari, seen from here (latest WebKit nightly

Re: [WSG] XHTML+Voice

2007-09-07 Thread Tee G. Peng
Hi Philippe, a quick question before I forgot to ask. A bit off-topic: yes I use VoiceOver sometimes; the built-in voice options are awful, so far Vicki is the only one I can listen for more than 15 mintues. I'd been wanting to purhcase a pleasant voice sample but don't know where to look.

[WSG] XHTML vz HTML speed

2007-03-07 Thread Keryx Web
Hello again! Firefox 3.0 will support incremental rendering of true XHTML, since bug 18333 has been fixed: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18333 and http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/3.0a2/releasenotes/ One argument in support of XHTML has been speed (seldom heard today,

Re: [WSG] XHTML again

2006-01-07 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 7 Jan 2006, at 3:35 pm, Lynne Pope wrote: On 1/7/06, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is not as easy to hide proprietary and 'not-yet-recommended' CSS from the validator, as it is with all the garbage often needed to make IE/win behave. OTOH: hiding something in a

Re: [WSG] XHTML again

2006-01-07 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Lynne Pope wrote: The validators themselves tell you that they have limitations. A page can validate according to the W3C online service but, in fact, not be valid. I think Philippe covered the validity-points pretty well. It all comes down to how closely any developer wishes to adhere to

[WSG] XHTML again - was:[Claiming compliance when a site doesn't' actually comply]

2006-01-06 Thread designer
Leslie Riggs wrote: What's a person to do? When is it appropriate to use one of the XHTML DTDs and when to use HTML 4.01, and what about those XHTML Transitional DTDs? I guess I'm looking for a bit of a summarization clarification of this concept. Leslie Riggs The approach I use (I'm

Re: [WSG] XHTML again - was:[Claiming compliance when a site doesn't' actually comply]

2006-01-06 Thread Lynne Pope
I didn't want my first contribution to the group to be a comment on another person's website, but as you said you are learning Bob I thought you might find this helpful. The problem with browser sniffing is that you have to be very careful to serve the right information. At the moment, your site

Re: [WSG] XHTML again - was:[Claiming compliance when a site doesn't' actually comply]

2006-01-06 Thread Roberto Scano (IWA/HWG)
- Messaggio originale - Da: Lynne In IE, your site shows meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8. It needs to be sent with the text/html mime type. A little tweak to your php code and you will have it nailed ;) Roberto

Re: [WSG] XHTML again - was:[Claiming compliance when a site doesn't' actually comply]

2006-01-06 Thread designer
Hi Roberto, When I 'view source' in FF, I get the following: ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ? !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN' 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd' html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xml:lang='en' If I look in IE, I get

Re: [WSG] XHTML again - was:[Claiming compliance when a site doesn't' actually comply]

2006-01-06 Thread Roberto Scano (IWA/HWG)
- Messaggio originale - Da: designer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Roberto, When I 'view source' in FF, I get the following: [cut] Are you getting something different? Roberto: You miss the css stylesheets as xml. Try this page for see the difference in the

Re: [WSG] XHTML again - was:[Claiming compliance when a site doesn't' actually comply]

2006-01-06 Thread Roberto Scano (IWA/HWG)
- Messaggio originale - Da: Roberto Scano (IWA/HWG)[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: 06/01/06 14.26.37 A: wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgwsg@webstandardsgroup.org Oggetto: Re: [WSG] XHTML again - was:[Claiming compliance when a site doesn't' actually comply

Re: [WSG] XHTML again - was:[Claiming compliance when a site doesn't' actually comply]

2006-01-06 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Roberto Scano (IWA/HWG) wrote: Roberto: You miss the css stylesheets as xml. Try this page for see the difference in the source code: http://www.fruibile.it What's the point of defining the stylesheet both with the xml-stylesheet instruction AND the (valid, and clearly defined in

Re: [WSG] XHTML again - was:[Claiming compliance when a site doesn't' actually comply]

2006-01-06 Thread Roberto Scano (IWA/HWG)
- Messaggio originale - Da: Patrick H. Lauke[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: 06/01/06 16.54.27 A: wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgwsg@webstandardsgroup.org Oggetto: Re: [WSG] XHTML again - was:[Claiming compliance when a site doesn't' actually comply] Roberto Scano (IWA/HWG

Re: [WSG] XHTML again

2006-01-06 Thread designer
Hi Lynne, Thanks for your comments. Unless I'm very much mistaken, it 'is' sent as text/html - that's the point. OK, it does say that it is application/xhtml+xml in the meta tag, but that is just ignored when it's sent with the correct mime type. Also, try as I might, I can't get it to be

Re: [WSG] XHTML again

2006-01-06 Thread Lynne Pope
Hi Bob,Your splash page validates in xhtml, but the rest of your site has css errors: Errors URI : http://www.rhh.myzen.co.uk/rhh/gam/altgam/altgam.cssLine: 6 Context : html Property text-justify doesn't exist : newspaper Line: 62 Context : #container Property text-justify doesn't exist :

Re: [WSG] XHTML again

2006-01-06 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
designer wrote: If I'm missing something here, perhaps one of our learned colleagues will tell me? Bob, I don't think you are missing anything !important so far :-) Lynne Pope wrote: Your splash page validates in xhtml, but the rest of your site has css errors: Errors URI :

Re: [WSG] XHTML again

2006-01-06 Thread Lynne Pope
On 1/7/06, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is not as easy to hide proprietary and 'not-yet-recommended' CSS from the validator, as it is with all the garbage often needed to make IE/win behave. OTOH: hiding something in a conditional comment (or in a 'non-existent stylesheet',

[WSG] XHTML 1.1 Entities (WAS Claiming compliance when a site doesn't comply)

2006-01-05 Thread Kenny Graham
Patrick said: and once you go from XHTML 1.0 strict to 1.1 (yes, yes, changing mime type and all that) there are a few more things to look out for ... not being allowed any character entities apart from the basic amp; lt; gt; quot; and apo; - so things like copy; for instance will not be

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 Entities (WAS Claiming compliance when a site doesn't comply)

2006-01-05 Thread Kenny Graham
List of XHTML 1.1 entities, served as application/xhtml+xml : http://www.w3.org/People/mimasa/test/xhtml/entities/entities-11.xhtml I really hope I'm right, or I'm gonna have to go back to a lot of sites to fix a lot of ldquo;s and such. ** The

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 Entities (WAS Claiming compliance when a site doesn't comply)

2006-01-05 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Kenny Graham wrote: Patrick said: and once you go from XHTML 1.0 strict to 1.1 (yes, yes, changing mime type and all that) there are a few more things to look out for ... not being allowed any character entities apart from the basic amp; lt; gt; quot; and apo; - so things like copy; for

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 Entities (WAS Claiming compliance when a site doesn't comply)

2006-01-05 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 6 Jan 2006, at 10:50 am, Kenny Graham wrote: List of XHTML 1.1 entities, served as application/xhtml+xml : http://www.w3.org/People/mimasa/test/xhtml/entities/entities-11.xhtml I really hope I'm right, or I'm gonna have to go back to a lot of sites to fix a lot of ldquo;s and such. If

RE: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 Entities (WAS Claiming compliance when a site doesn't comply)

2006-01-05 Thread Jason Turnbull
Kenny Graham wrote: I really hope I'm right, or I'm gonna have to go back to a lot of sites to fix a lot of ldquo;s and such. Philippe wrote: If you want to support Safari (with application/xhtml+xml), I'm afraid, you'll have to go back... If these entities are not allowed when served as

RE: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 Entities (WAS Claiming compliance when a site doesn't comply)

2006-01-05 Thread Jason Turnbull
Patrick wrote: *browser support* for named entities can be flaky Sorry I missed post I'm still surprised that Safari has limited support Thanks Jason ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 Entities (WAS Claiming compliance when a site doesn't comply)

2006-01-05 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 6 Jan 2006, at 1:42 pm, Jason Turnbull wrote: Kenny Graham wrote: I really hope I'm right, or I'm gonna have to go back to a lot of sites to fix a lot of ldquo;s and such. Philippe wrote: If you want to support Safari (with application/xhtml+xml), I'm afraid, you'll have to go back...

[WSG] xhtml DTD

2005-12-22 Thread Spark
hya I use this W3C document as a reference to know which tag may go inside other: http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/xhtml-modularization-19990406/DTD/doc/xhtml1-t.elt.html I never found nothing else like that (such a DTD visual representation), but what I want to know is: is it the latest version ?

Re: [WSG] xhtml DTD

2005-12-22 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Spark wrote: I use this W3C document as a reference to know which tag may go inside other: http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/xhtml-modularization-19990406/DTD/doc/xhtml1-t.elt.html I never found nothing else like that (such a DTD visual representation), but what I want to know is: is it the latest

Re: [WSG] xhtml DTD

2005-12-22 Thread Spark
hi, On 12/22/05, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spark wrote: I use this W3C document as a reference to know which tag may go inside other: http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/xhtml-modularization-19990406/DTD/doc/xhtml1-t.elt.html I never found nothing else like that (such a DTD

Re: [WSG] xhtml DTD

2005-12-22 Thread Bert Doorn
Spark wrote: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/index/elements.html Although is a useful list, it's not good for what I pointed: knowing what can go inside what. Like can I put a Heading tag inside a DT? (no) , or can a put an A here in the BODY ? (no , you can't). Does anyone have any suggestion ?

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,

Re: [WSG] xhtml doctypes and charsets-thank you

2005-11-28 Thread The Snider's Web
Hi Everyone, Thank you all so much for the great information, that helped a lot. I agree with those of you who said that one could stay with html, of course as long as one uses clean and valid code :) Thanks again Lisa At 11:03 AM 11/25/2005, you wrote: I guess I am wondering what the

Re: [WSG] xhtml doctypes and charsets

2005-11-26 Thread Alan Trick
My personal feeling is that you should be using the HTML 4.01 doctype. Your not going to achive anything by using an XHTML doctype and it's technically invalid. Remember *every User Agent will (and should) treat your code as HTML*. If you put a skirt on a man it won't make him a woman. Weather or

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