Re: Removing support for generating XHTML in roundup templates

Hello roundup users, Hallo Thomas,

I want to thank Thomas for taking the time to look this up in
detail:

Thomas Arendsen Hein schrieb am Montag, den 28.10.2019 um 16:35:
> * Peter Funk <[email protected]> [20191026 12:37]:
> > This feature was added at some time in the past because obviously 
> > someone saw the need for XHTML.  It is probably difficult to find 
> > out who this was and whether they stopped using XHTML by now.
> 
> changeset:   1952:c40ed9113285
> user:        Richard Jones <[email protected]>
> date:        Sat Dec 06 00:00:54 2003 +0000
> summary:     Applied Stefan Seefeld's html4/xhtml patch with some changes.
> 
> And the corresponding change of CHANGES.txt contains:
> - HTML generated is now HTML4 (or optionally XHTML) compliant (sf feature
>   814314 and sf patch 834620)
> 
> The corresponding tracker entry is:
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=402788&aid=814314&group_id=31577
> but SourceForge is currently half-down due to a DoS attack, so
> reading this isn't easy.
> 
> From what I have seen in the mailing list archive, the feature
> request was to make Roundup pages comply to standards for HTML4 and
> XHTML (because were common back then), so that the w3c checker
> wouldn't complain. It was decided to only fully implement HTML4, so
> only one set of templates has to be maintained, but the code to
> allow switching between HTML4 and XHTML was already written.
> 
> So there never has been an template for XHTML included in Roundup,
> the only chance someone has such a template would be to create your
> own. And if you create your own template, you would always have to
> update it for new Roundup versions as they are almost guaranteed to
> break during updates.
> 
> -> Nobody should use XHTML templates with Roundup, and I really
> doubt that there are any existing XHTML templates for Roundup.
...
> > Keeping backward compatibility to older versions of a product is a
> > precious value in itself to enhance the popularity of a product.
> 
> But bogging down the development of a product won't help with the
> popularity.
...
I this particular case I agree: We should drop XHTML in Roundup.  

Best regards or (in german) Liebe Grüße, Peter Funk
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