Following some of the very interesting UK .gov mails of late, I've been
involved in a fierce debate about serving XHTML 1.0 STRICT either as
application/xhtml+xml or text/html, content negotiation and the like -
whether, in fact, the world is ready for XHTML etc
Gurus argue for and against - at
Cameron Edwards wrote:
Following some of the very interesting UK .gov mails of late, I've been
involved in a fierce debate about serving XHTML 1.0 STRICT either as
application/xhtml+xml or text/html, content negotiation and the like -
whether, in fact, the world is ready for XHTML etc
While I
Cameron Edwards
Following some of the very interesting UK .gov mails of late,
I've been
involved in a fierce debate about serving XHTML 1.0 STRICT either as
application/xhtml+xml or text/html, content negotiation and the like -
whether, in fact, the world is ready for XHTML etc
Hmm...that
Patrick Lauke wrote:
(imagine your grandmother with her IE6 going to her local council website -
after you finally got her to use
the interweb - to find information on some opening times or whatever, only
to be presented with a Open / Save as... dialog).
Patrick, I'm a grandmother -- albeit a
Daisy
Could we drop the sexist (it's never a grandfather!), ageist digs at
people who simply had the misfortune to be born 10, 20, 50
years too early?
Fair enough, my sincere apologies. In my defence, the example was actually
based on a real life example from a colleague of mine.
Replace
Patrick/Lachlan - many, many thanks for your input...
...clashing as it is in some regard. :o)
I'd still prefer to deliver my site as XHTML 1.0 STRICT - if I serve it
merely as text//html then I'm still covering the bases somewhat while
elements of the world at large play catch-up.
My mark-up
Patrick Lauke wrote:
Daisy
Could we drop the sexist (it's never a grandfather!), ageist digs at
people who simply had the misfortune to be born 10, 20, 50
years too early?
Replace my previous statement with something non-gender/non-age
specific phrase to signify users who may have a average
Lachlan Hunt
I'll be sure to make sure all my future examples use
non-technologically inclined, gender indeterminent homo sapien
instead. Sure it's a mouthful, but we mustn't be sexist.
You can go overboard on political correctness, certainly...but Daisy's
comment is very valid in my
