- From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:58:17 +0900
- To: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>
- Cc: Ben Adida <ben@adida.net>, Carlos Tejo Alonso <carlos.tejo@fundacionctic.org>, "public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf.w3.org" <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Le 17 juil. 2008 à 23:44, Shane McCarron a écrit : > What does that mean in the real world? Most people who are > developing real content (as opposed to some random blog somewhere) > are concerned that content be "valid". Then there is a minority or people producing real content. Most of the content on the web is not valid. > Valid content is content that "validates" using a validation tool > such as the ones built into popular commercial editing tools or web- > based ones such as http://validator.3.org note that while checking many things, validator.w3.org, doesn't check everything which is proposed in a specification. > Once you have valid content, you probably want that content to go to > every user agent out there. And that's fine. Even though user > agents don't explicitly "speak" this new markup language, they are > perfectly happy to process it. The main user agent,, IE, in its released version doesn't support application/xhtml+xml. Before serving XHTML as text/html, they should read "How is the treatment of application/xhtml+xml documents different from the treatment of text/html documents?"[1] so they can make a fully informed choice. [1]: http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/faq.html#xhtmldiff > The "tag soup" days of the 90s are going the way of the Dodo - and > that's a very good thing. That is not true. Asserting it doesn't make it true either. As much as I appreciate the effort and that I love RDFa and XHTML, asserting things which are not facts, deserve RDFa community, unfortunately. :/ /me who serves his pages as XHTML, and loves Semantic Web technologies. -- Karl Dubost - W3C http://www.w3.org/QA/ Be Strict To Be Cool
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