- From: Jelks Cabaniss <jelks@jelks.nu>
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 13:32:37 -0400
- To: <www-html@w3.org>
> Dear XHTML Committee, > > Please make life easier for those of us who validate or insist on valid > HTML from our users. Please do away with the "transitional," "strict," > and "frameset" DTDs, and give us A SINGLE DTD for the current W3 > recommendation! Indeed. There was a Transitional DTD for HTML 4.0 -- we're *keeping* a Transitional DTD for XHTML? Sounds more Eternal than Transitional. Do we really want to bring <font> & Co. along to the party? Perhaps it should be re-codenamed "Titanic" instead of "Voyager". ... People who want to use <font> & Co. can always use HTML 4.0 Transitional. There's no shortage of browsers that understand that stuff -- and it has the added "benefit" that it doesn't even need to be well-formed. ... :) PS. I'm sure this has been discussed by the committee, and for various reasons decided against at this time. But I sincerely hope that *very strong wording* is placed prominently in the Recommendation that the next version will *not* have a Transitional DTD, and that people should use Strict -- and CSS (and/or maybe XSL *if* that is viable at the time) for presentation. /Jelks
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