Re: [VE][63] Wrong character in meta element ?

David Dorward wrote:

>> XHTML provides many benefits for content authors.
>
> None of them client side,

Sure. Today's so-called HTML user agents don't support arbitrary HTML.
For example, this perfectly valid HTML 4.01 document is rendered in a
different way in IE, Firefox und Opera:

  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
  <html>
  <head><title></title></head>
  <body>
  <p><a href="http://www.w3.org/"><img alt="W3C" src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_main"</a> Should this text be underlined?</p>
  </body>
  </html>

On the other hand, existing HTML user agents do support XHTML that
complies with Appendix C.

> so the benefits can be gained for writing XHTML and for storing data
> in that format, and it can be transformed to HTML before serving to
> clients.

Waste of resources.

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Received on Sunday, 8 October 2006 15:03:45 UTC