Re: ' and xhtml

Jorge Arellano Cid <[email protected]> Wed, 7 Nov 2012 16:37:02 -0300
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.dillo.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 05:50:44PM +0000, corvid wrote:
> 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&apos;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.

  Yes, that's the state of things these days...

  There's almost no other way than heuristics

-- 
  Cheers
  Jorge.-