- From: Vidiot <brown@mrvideo.vidiot.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 19:47:53 -0500 (EST)
- To: kynn@idyllmtn.com (Kynn Bartlett)
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Kynn responded: >At 05:37 PM 1/29/2000 , Vidiot wrote: >>URL: www.vidiot.com/forumdispay.html >>1) Validator does not like mixed-case tags, i.e., <HEAD> </head> >> It errors and says that there is an ending </head> without a start. >> That is obviously false. Tags are not case sensitive and neither >> should the validator be case sensitive. > >Hi, this isn't strictly speaking true for all versions of HTML. Since when? I've never run across a browser that does care about case and the HTML4.01 document, page 29, second paragraph, says that elements are case insensitive. >XHTML requires tags to not be mixed case. Why the hell not? Excuse me for saying so, but I think it is stupid to force case on elements. A lot of people, me included, hand write HTML code. I personally prefer to have all elements in caps, including tags and attributes. But, many do not. I've seen lots of mixed case HTML documents. To force same-case tags is stupid and unenforceable. I hereby plead that case-insensitivity be put into XHTML. >>2) Error: end tag for "BASE" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified. >> Excuse me, but </BASE> is FORBIDDEN. And where did I end up >> specifying "OMITTAG NO"? I certainly didn't select any options >> to do that. > >This is also something that's in XHTML -- all tags in XHTML need to >be closed, i.e. either <BASE HREF="whatever" /> or <BASE></BASE>. Huh? Why? Obviously BASE has worked for years in HTML without a closing tag. Why should it now be required? The word dumb comes to mind again. According to your statement, even <BR> would require a </BR>, which is really stupid. Are you guys doing this non-mixed-case and adding closing tags thing just to be difficult? I don't see the logic in doing this. >2. Gerald needs to rethink the utility of having the default be > XHTML 1.0. While I can see -why- he'd choose this -- the W3C > has an interest in promoting the use of XHTML instead of HTML, > and this is one way of raising awareness -- I feel that it's > just going to result in confusing and frustration for the > default DTD to be anything other than HTML 4.01. Based upon the above few items that are being forced on the user, XHTML is not going to be a document choice for me any time soon. IMHO, you are being too heavy handed with the XHTML structure. MB -- e-mail: vidiot@vidiot.com Bart: Hey, why is it destroying other toys? Lisa: They must have programmed it to eliminate the competition. Bart: You mean like Microsoft? Lisa: Exactly. [The Simpsons - 12/18/99] Visit - URL:http://www.vidiot.com/ (Your link to Star Trek and UPN)
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