Changes between Version 15 and Version 16 of CodingStyle


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Aug 16, 2008, 3:08:12 PM (16 years ago)
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MichaelRoberts
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    153153Anyway, it was David Anderson who said "no XHTML", not me. I only clarified this page and used more decent arguments for it ("XHTML needs more characters" wasn't exactly a compelling reason). --Nicolas
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     155The page we are editing may be in XHTML but it is delivered as text/html and thus processed as "tag soup". See the following links for details of why XHTML is problematical:
     156  http://friendlybit.com/html/why-xhtml-is-a-bad-idea/
     157  http://hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml -- sending xhtml as text/html considered harmful
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     159As far as market share is concerned - see http://marketshare.hits
     160They quote IE 6 as still having a 25% market share - installed base will be higher as many using Firefox will not have updated it.
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     162Even if XHTML worked with other MS browsers, we should not generate content which is unreadable by a quarter of the web population.
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     164The only justification for using XHTML is embedded MathML or SVG, etc, but I don't think that applies to our pages. Often one could embed the extra content in an iframe in any case... --MichaelRoberts
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