- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 20:46:20 +0100
- To: "Wilfred Starrenburg" <wr_starrenburg@hotmail.com>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Received on Monday, 24 September 2018 19:46:49 UTC
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