Re: Wilfred comments error checking HTML

On 24 Sep 2018, at 16:37, Wilfred Starrenburg wrote:

> I receive error messages upon
> <https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> <html xmlns="https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
>
> The message was that I have to use http:// and NOT https://, so it 
> does not like the secure version.

The namespace for XHTML is `http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml`. It identifies 
the namespace. The name cannot be changed. It is not a URL. It is not 
intended to be visited by an HTTP client.

> However when you type in the http:// it GOES to the secure https:??

The HTTP URL which looks identical to the namespace name happens to be a 
redirect to a useful resource.

> SEO does NOT like the http://, it wishes to see the https://

Search engines do not care about how namespaces are named.

> Please allow both versions

That would require changing the XML namespace spec so it allowed aliases 
for namespaces, changing the XHTML specs so they allowed the alias with 
an S in it, and changing every bit of software that consumed XHTML and 
paid attention to namespaces so it supported the new namespace.

Received on Monday, 24 September 2018 19:46:49 UTC