- From: Steven Roussey <sroussey@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:08:04 -0700
- To: public-html@w3.org
- Message-ID: <m2yd6971bca1004221408pbb05c045u6daf61230b30486d@mail.gmail.com>
For the next version of Firebug, I've made the doctype visible in the HTML view, and mark it red and with an error message (on hover) for sites that do the above. Essentially, the browser ignores the XHTML references and obeys the mime-type, and web page authors can go on for a while never knowing. Microsoft.com, ibm.com, and developer.mozilla.org all now get flagged with errors. If it were not for the polyglot spec, I'd prefer to have XHTML docs root node be <xhtml> instead of <html> to make things clear. I was always unclear on the value of xhtml on the public facing internet, and found it difficult to find examples of real xhtml in the wild against which to test svg and mathml in firebug. If the doctype switched a text/html served file from html to xhtml it would likely match average authors' expectations as they are today. I'm sure that there is a long history on why this is not so, and the HTML5 doctype no longer distinguishes between the two. And that is probably the most compatible way forward, as it will change the expectations of what the doctype means. -steve--
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