2009/10/4 David Chang <david_q_zh...@yahoo.com>: > Hello, I am reading <<Wicket in Action>>. The Tip on page 291 says "it is > good practice to start your panels and borders (possibly your pages) with an > XML declaration to force Wicket to work with them using the proper encoding". > > Does this mean that starting a panel, border, or page with something such as > the following: > ---------- > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; lang="en" xml:lang="en"> > <head> > <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> > ... > </head> > ----------
Actually, the xml declaration is the one starting <?xml, which includes your encoding as soon as possible in the file, before any actual content. Adding the doctype is also good practice, as it makes sure wicket/the browser/anything else that reads the file understands it exactly as you wrote it, but is a separate issue. > > is better than with: > ---------- > <html> > <head> > ... > </head> > ---------- > If yes, why do all the examples of the WIA book start simply with > <html><head>...</head>? To save space I assume. > Thanks for your help! > One final thing to note is that IE6 will screw up any page with an <?xml declaration. I prefer to include it in my source, and then have Wicket strip it out at the last moment - at least when I'm forced to be IE6 compatible. -- Phil Housley --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
