- From: Sierk Bornemann <sierkb@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 20:30:41 +0100
- To: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Am 08.03.2007 um 19:53 schrieb David Dorward: > Sierk Bornemann wrote: > >> Nevertheless, anybody prevents you from making your document well- >> formed in HTML 4.01 > > Other then "well formedness" being a meaningless term when applied > to HTML Technically spoken, yes. Aesthetically spoken and having a later transition to XHTML in mind, no. :-) >> Or, if nothing speaks against it, switch to a XHTML Document Type > > * Internet Explorer doesn't support XHTML. It supports it, if you follow the HTML Compatibility Guidelines of the XHTML 1.0 Spec on http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#guidelines. For Internet Explorer lower/equal v6, this mainly means: * XHTML 1.0 Doctype, * no Processing Instruction (<?xml version="1.0"?>), * a space before the trailing / and > of empty elements, * document served as text/html The bug of Internet Explorer lower v7 to switch into Quirks-Mode, when the Processing Instruction (PI) occurs, is fixed in Internet Explorer 7. > * Pretending XHTML is HTML by serving it as text/html is an ugly > hack that depends on browser bugs. See: XHTML Media Types http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/ Serving XHTML 1.0 http://www.w3.org/International/articles/serving-xhtml/ XHTML oder HTML? (german) http://schneegans.de/web/xhtml/ Sierk -- Sierk Bornemann | Germany email: sierkb@gmx.de WWW: http://sierkbornemann.de/
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