Re: still too early for XHTML :-((

Petr Stehlik wrote:

>On Po, 2003-04-07 at 19:37, Jacob Kjome wrote:
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>>So, can anyone confirm that if an XHTMLScriptElement is added to the
>>XHTML DOM that it is written as <script></script> instead of <script
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>I can confirm that it's written out as <script /> and while it is a
>problem for browsers with closed source code it is not a real 'bug'
>since W3C allows that.
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>>If it is writing it as <script /> then we will have a major browser
>>incompatibility. 
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>yes, both IE 5-6 and Opera 7 choke on that and stop rendering the page.
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>>It should definitely be written as <script></script>.
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>But the <script /> is XHTML compatible. XMLC does that to all tags when
>generating XHTML. Perhaps the David Corbin's patch with configurable
>behaviour will help but then the question is why to bother with
>producing XHTML 1.0 when the output is basically equal to HTML 4.01.
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>Let me list all the XHTML problems I encountered so far, IIRC:
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>1) document type incorrect, javascript didn't work
>2) too old DTD for XHTML in XMLC
>3) setting of boolean attributes does not work
>4) single quotes are converted to &apos; (IE doesn't understand)
>5) <script /> is not understood by IE/Opera
>6) URLRewriter does not work
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I patched this too.  But, I'm not 100% sure I submitted that patch.  I 
will try to check tomorrow.

>I reported all problems and submitted patch for 1 and 2 and suggested
>solutions for 3 and 6. David C. submitted patch for 4 and 5.
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>Even if the 3 got fixed (not that hard) the 6 is still a serious issue.
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>Also note that XMLC with patch 5 basically produces HTML 4.01 code,
>since the only visible difference between HTML and XHTML is the short
>form of <TAG />. So after disabling the short form of closing tag the
>question is why to bother with XHTML at all.
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Well, I can think of two things: 1) long-term thinking & 2) It's been 
nice that the parser complains when we start out with an invalid template...

>Petr
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