Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 07:55:17 -0400 From: parv <parv_@yahoo.com> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: f-doc <freebsd-doc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: (website) move towards xhtml Message-ID: <20010813075517.A16251@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20010813104836.X50182@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 10:48:36AM %2B0100 References: <20010812200925.A49266@moo.holy.cow> <20010813104836.X50182@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
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this was, on the fateful occasion around Aug 13 05:48 -0400, sent by Nik Clayton > > On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 08:09:25PM -0400, parv wrote: > > is there any effort, either ongoing or in the planning, to move the > > web pages away from html & towards xhtml (at least conforming to > > xhtml-transitional dtd)? > > XHTML is something I'm dimly aware of, lurking on the horizon, but it's > not something I've done any serious investigation of. > > What would be the benefits / disadvantages of using XHTML? (please feel free to replace "we" w/ "i" as you like.) disadvantages: - fix up needed for lonely tags like 'br' or 'hr' as in <br /> or <hr /> that space before '/' is there so that current browsers supporting html 3/4 don't go totally out of whack. (adapted from w3c publications). - changes won't be noticeable until browsers themselves start supporting xhtml; until then web servers will need to present xhtml files as if they are html files. advantages: - w3c's update of html 4.x; html 4 has been deprecated in favor of xhtml. (inferred from the 1st link below) - xhtml-strict dtd takes us towards xml; in the end will fit much more nicely w/ css than existing html (again w3c propaganda)... but who knows what else would have, or have not, had happened by then? personal motivation is both deprecation of html & easy (to implement) solutions to above 2 disadvantages; turn a knob in apache (even in htaccess), write an easy short lazy perl program, and we are done. ( actually, shouldn't the lone tags be taken care of properly when the source documentations are already in sgml? or, are we using non-strict dtds and/or their enforcement? ) for more info you can always visit w3c, of course... http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/xhtml-roadmap/ -- so, do you like word games or scrabble? - parv To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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