(X)HTML5

Milian Wolff
I like your approach, really, very much, however:

(X)HTML5
1. (X)HTML5 - or HTML5 - has been appointed by W3C as the 
successor of XHTML (2.0) for all development further on. 
Forget about obsolete HTML and replace it by HTML5 
tags/elements/attributes.

Nowadays all browsers support these new elements, more or 
less, whith the exception of IE8. But soon coming IE9 will 
support html5 by 100%. Quanta+4 should be looking forward, 
not backward, and implement the new directions pointed out 
by W3C.

There is nothing wrong to get a version of XHTML/XML plugin, 
it will of course be useful, but (X)HTML5 is the future. 
Maybe define it (X)HTML5/XML plugin, or - similarly to your 
quote - with HTML5 (but not HTML or SGML) support? Quanta+4 
must of course support it, view
http://w3schools.com/html5/default.asp

CSS(3)
2. It is neither wrong to support CSS3! We are already using 
many of these wonderful new tools, view
http://w3schools.com/w3c/w3c_css.asp
http://www.css3.info/

Check also that new Quanta css editor/plugin give you lower 
case attributes according to XHTML/(X)HTML5. Now it gives 
you obsolete UPPERCASE, picking colors, for instance.

Indentation: Now I use XML Style, tried also Normal, but it 
gives me problems in the CSS editor, after copy/cut and 
pasting. To get back original indentation you must give an 
Undo ctrl+z  after Paste ctrl+v. Annoying. Or should I 
change indentation style in editor, but does not seem to 
change anything in old Quanta+?

UTF8
3. Check that the editor supports typing all characters and 
in all languages. Only utf8 supports all characters and must 
be default encoding. We designers wish to be able to type 
and read multilingual body texts with all characters 
readable.

Todays Quanta+ force you to insert text from other editors, 
if you like to read what you typed. Compare this mix of 
Russian and Swedish:

a) "Дорогая моя! Även med våra åäö ..."

b) "Дорогая 
моя! Även med våra 
åäö ..."
from old Quanta+.

Which one do you prefer, if read and edit your typing of 
body text?

Leif Hjerpe, web designer (not [yet alas] developer)
Using Quanta+3.5.10 (OpenSuse release) in KDE-4.3.5 (today 
crippled, but still usable). Location Sweden
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