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[list4xt] Re: XHTML output handler nits
Subject: [list4xt] Re: XHTML output handler nits
User: Website From: Mike Brown (mike@skew.org)
Date: 02/05/2000 - 01:11
> I expect the XHTML 'legacy' rules to be with us for something too close
> to eternity, and find your belief in straight--up XML output downright
> dangerous. [...] I'll pass on what I see as your wild optimism regarding
> the XMLization of HTML.
I'm sorry I came off as anything close to optimistic! :) I agree with you,
actually. I am just not looking forward to having to tell whoever inherits
my work from me that this method that, according to the summary you put on
xmlhack, "outputs XHTML" is not -- and should not be -- necessary for the
kind of XHTML that I produce (which is used as a source tree for another
transformation that produces, IMHO more apporpriately, HTML 4.0 for
current browsers).
Perhaps I should have said that it undermines arguments for canonical
equivalence of <foo/> and <foo /> to have the latter be necessary "for
compatibility" when really you are trying to cram XML through a rendering
engine designed for HTML. I don't think the compatibility guidelines
should've been introduced at all for precisely this reason -- people will
use them, and rely on them, for nearly forever.
Either way, the browsers won't change. They don't have to, since authoring
for compatibility is recommended, and they can't afford to, since they are
competing with one another to hide any technical unpleasantries from
users. No browser maker wants to tell users a document is not well-formed.
"Make it fit" seems to be the ethos all around. So I am quite pessimistic.
Sorry to have put you on the defensive.
-Mike
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