- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:53:51 +0000
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 16:20 -0500, Sam Ruby wrote: > I believe that I could modify my weblog to be simultaneously both > HTML5 and XHTML5 compliant, modulo the embedded SVG content, something > that would needs to be discussed separately. I think having /two/ different serializations of Web Forms 2.0/Web Applications 1.0 is bad enough. To try and cater to what's effectively a third serialization compatible with both parsing methods is to reinvent the "XHTML 1.0 as text/html" mess. Serializing to multiple formats from a single source is, I think, a better model. Especially as embedded content may need different treatment too. > Lachlan's observations [...] on what it would take to > change the popular WordPress application to produce HTML5 compliant > output As blogging software goes, WordPress is pretty good. But then blogging software is generally atrocious when it comes to markup. Trying to design an (X)HTML spec for a group of PHP developers who think it's persuasive to bang on about their dedication to "web standards" while serving their project's non-validating XHTML 1.1 homepage as text/html is doomed to failure. Adapting WordPress to be an efficient creator of good HTML (4 or 5) would be a big job, probably entailing a total rethink at some levels. But hacking WordPress to output valid HTML 4.01 is by no means impossible. A method for removing the trailing slashes you're worrying about was posted to the WordPress support forum: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/76431 -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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