On Tue, 1 May 2001, Aaron Swartz wrote: > >> it would render the page without any expanded >> character entity references, since Mozilla is not a validating parser >> and thus skips parsing the DTD and thus doesn't know what , >> · and © are. > > Mozilla's XML parser should be smart enough to recognize the HTML DTDs and > thus expand these entities properly, even if it doesn't validate the page > (which I believe it should). (If it did, you couldn't arbitrarily use namespaces.) >> and it would use an >> unexpected background colour for the page because the stylesheet sets >> the background on <body> and not <html>, which in XHTML will result in >> a different rendering to the equivalent in HTML4 (same sheet, line 5). > > I have not heard of this change before. Can you point me to the section of > the XHTML spec that defines this? The HTML WG have asked the CSS WG to not extend CSS2 section 14.2 [1] paragraph 4 to cover XHTML. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/colors.html#q2 -- Ian Hickson )\ _. - ._.) fL Invited Expert, CSS Working Group /. `- ' ( `--' The views expressed in this message are strictly `- , ) - > ) \ personal and not those of Netscape or Mozilla. ________ (.' \) (.' -' ______Received on Wednesday, 2 May 2001 04:48:52 GMT
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