- From: Gerald Oskoboiny <gerald@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 16:53:31 -0500
- To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- Cc: Vidiot <vidiot@vidiot.com>, www-validator@w3.org
On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 01:22:22PM -0800, Kynn Bartlett wrote: : > There are two things that need to be done: > > 1. You (Vidiot) need to start using valid doctypes on your pages > if you want to use a specific HTML flavor such as HTML 4.01. > > 2. Gerald needs to rethink the utility of having the default be > XHTML 1.0. While I can see -why- he'd choose this -- the W3C > has an interest in promoting the use of XHTML instead of HTML, > and this is one way of raising awareness -- I feel that it's > just going to result in confusing and frustration for the > default DTD to be anything other than HTML 4.01. Yeah, I realized that a day or two ago -- at the very least, it should have some text in the results saying "I'm assuming XHTML; if you don't want that, here's info on adding an HTML doctype..." I'll try to add something like that tomorrow. -- Gerald Oskoboiny <gerald@w3.org> +1 617 253 2920 System Administrator http://www.w3.org/People/Gerald/ World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) http://www.w3.org/
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