- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 03:43:59 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Cc: "www-html@w3.org" <www-html@w3.org>
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > > <!DOCTYPE > html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd" [ > ... > ]> > > Is this legal? No. See XHTML 1.1, section 2.1.1, item 1. In any case, it is illegal to send XHTML 1.1 as text/html, so the whole excercise is pointless as no legacy browser would be able to render the page in the first place. Furthermore, I imagine the internal subset screws up and gets rendered or otherwise confused on a number of legacy browsers. Also, the language attribute is not required in any UA I know of, they all assume JavaScript. Also, if you are using the "width" attribute it implies that your use of tables is presentational, which is a no-no in XHTML 1.1 (and XHTML 1.0 and HTML 4.x, for that matter). Why aren't you using HTML 3.2? -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL "meow" /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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