2008/12/16 Nils Dagsson Moskopp < nils-dagsson-mosk...@dieweltistgarnichtso.net>
> Am Dienstag, den 16.12.2008, 15:38 +0100 schrieb Giovanni Campagna: > > Browser assume that author knows XML because he's put an application/* > > +xml mime type. > > On the other hand, this assumption cannot be done for blogger, who > > aren't expected to know XML / XML 1.1 / XHTML 1.0 / HTML5 specs > > (they're not expected to know about what or w3c either) > Then they shouldn't write XHTML in the first place ... there *are* some > good autoformatters which handle stuff for you (think: newline -> <br/>, > two newlines -> <p>aragraph). Also, WYSIWYG editors should *not* gave > you the oppontuniy to mess up your code. In a forum you usually write BBCode (or similar), that is server-side parsed with the same hacks as the HTML5 parser, while in other context it is definitely more powerful to write directly HTML Secondly, this: <p>Click on my icon <a href=somewhere.html><img width=88 height=15 src=myicon.png></p> is valid HTML although not valid XHTML. Do you mean this with "messing up your code"? > > > > Could not save you post, invalid XML markup (Mismatched end tag, > > expecting <img>, found </p>) > > > See W3C XML1.1 specification (link to XML spec) for further > > information about this. > > Or just "Not well-formed (attribute values must be encoded in double > > quotes)" > The current error messages are crap, that is totally right. They could > certainly be more user-friendly. Have you got any ideas? > > You have no page, thus no way to edit! > The admin interface should be always well-formed, having the offending > portion in a <textarea> (or similar) for easy editing and an <iframe> > for viewing. > In any case, it is not allowable for companies to have their site down because of an user, even for just few minutes (if your lucky and find bug immediately)
