I don't think we want to support XHTML-MP. We finally got rid of WML after years of discussions and attempts.
If we were to accept this patch, I'd like to see a broader discussion about whether we want to support XHTML-MP or not first. - Ryosuke On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Hugo Parente Lima <hugo.l...@openbossa.org>wrote: > Hi, > > I was pointed to trigger a discussion here about the patch: > > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85425 > > I'll try to resume to issue: > > If no viewport is specified webkit uses the magic and well know value of > 980 > pixels for the canvas width, this value is very good for most websites > developed for desktop usage, on the other side there are the websites[1] > developed for small screen mobile devices. Those websites will look pretty > ugly on a 980 pixels canvas, many of those websites uses a different DTD > like: > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN" > "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd";> > > The proposed patch changes the magic value of 980 pixels to "device-width" > when this doctype is found causing the website to render nicely if the > device > screen is small, i.e. don't show the website in a 980 pixels canvas zoomed > out > to fit the <980 pixels screen. > > Some webkit browsers already use this hack, like the N9 browser and if I > understood correctly by the Zalan comments on the bug, the iOS Safari too. > > Comments about why the viewport width should or shouldn't be changed by the > doc type is appreciated. Thanks! > > Regards > Hugo Parente Lima > > [1] http://m.yahoo.com; http://www.google.com (using a user agent like: > "Nokia > 7110/1.0") > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > >
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