Re: ' and xhtml
"corvid" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.dillo.devel |
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| Message-ID | <20121107175044.GB4504@local> |
Jorge wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 11:53:06PM +0000, corvid wrote: > > > > Jeremy wanted to add apos a long time ago, and it didn't happen then, > > but we did give in and accept application/xhtml+xml--let's see--two > > years ago now, so I wonder whether conditions have changed. > > Yep, things change in time... > > Although HTML 4.01 and other SPECS never succeeded to the point > of making serving valid HTML/XHTML a rule of thumb, or best > practice, things seem to have improved a bit since our early days > (just my perception out of finding more and more dillo-readable > sites these days). > > Escaping ' as APOS finds a solid reason in server contexts > where there's a need to accept untrusted input for scripts or > databases. > > I'd say, +1, feel free to commit. > > > PS: Please post a sample URL. Just to get the feel of it. ;) It was brought to mind when I couldn't retrieve mail the other day and checked http://lavabit.com . One of the news bits says "We've updated our SSL certificate." Hmmm.... looking at the source now, I see that, on one hand, it has <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> ..but, on the other hand, it says <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> ..instead of application/xhtml+xml.