Just a note.
HTML4 can really led to disastrous results on mobile web applications.
We find it to be really important to always use the content-type
application/xhtml+xml, which is supported by HTML5 but not HTML4, to
minimize possible issues.
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Samuel Santos
http://www.samaxes.com/
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Stone, Timothy <tst...@barclaycardus.com>wrote:
> Ben, et. al,
>
> The good news is I’ve been buried in a “Powered by Stripes 1.5.3” project.
>
> The bad news is, besides being a champion for a more flexible configuration
> of the HTML output of Stripes, I haven’t been able to complete what I
> started.
>
> My patch doesn’t throw a NPE, but it doesn’t work in nested Layout
> Definitions and Renderers.
>
> I recently proposed a Stripes configuration setting that would be much
> wider in scope than page, request, or session (session is not the right
> place anyway). Application level seem more apropos. A context-param has
> started making more sense in recent weeks. Follow my logic:
>
> An application is going to have HTML 4, 5, or XHTML output across the
> application as a whole. Developers should not be developing an application
> intentionally, or unintentionally, with varied response types... Well,
> mobile being an exception, but we (meaning myself and my employer) are
> finding that HTML 4 and 5 are the expected standards on advanced, even 3
> years recent, mobile platforms (WAP transforms are another matter
> altogether).
>
> Having a page level <s:options ... > or other Layout attribute requires
> pages/views to be aware of its response to the client, or puts encumbrance
> on the page developer to remember the output is of variety x for view y.
>
> Setting the response output in the deployment descriptor make it a much
> simpler branching in the FormTag and HtmlTagSupport classes: just check
> the ServletContext for the response type.
>
> I really need to visit this again, but yours truly is in the push to
> release... Maybe in our next iteration I’ll press the matter internally
> more.
>
> Regards,
> Tim
>
>
>
>
>
> On 10/12/10 9:14 PM, "Ben Gunter" <gunter...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the answer. I've seen recent posts to the group about Stripes'
> future. Well, this is one direction. The library is very well matured at
> this point, there's no immediate need to do anything (except for streaming
> layout - works on our platform btw). Maybe one direction to go is introduce
> HTML5 and some XHTML configuration for picky governments and etc...
>
>
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