Tidy users: please provide feedback about expected behaviours
James Derry <[email protected]> Sun, 08 Mar 2015 10:57:02 +0800
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.html-tidy.user,gmane.comp.web.html-tidy.devel |
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Cross-posted to [1]: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-htacg/ = ([email protected]) [2]: https://sourceforge.net/p/tidy/mailman/tidy-develop = ([email protected]) [3]: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/html-tidy/ ([email protected]) Good day list subscribers: This solicitation is to ask for your feedback on what the desired, = default behaviour for Tidy should be given certain conditions. To-date there has been some discussion about HTML5 versus previous HTML = version behaviour: https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/issues/169 However in order to bring it to a broader audience I=E2=80=99m asking = for your suggestions here. The general question is this: assuming no hints from the `--doctype` = option and a missing `<!DOCTYPE html> declaration, should Tidy 5.0.0 = assume that it is attempting to Tidy HTML5, or a previous version of = HTML? Please consider that one of Tidy=E2=80=99s use cases is = tidying/diagnosing =E2=80=9Csnippets=E2=80=9D of HTML, such as with the = `--body-only` option, and so it=E2=80=99s unsafe to assume that a = doctype declaration will always be present. The assumption for Tidy=E2=80=99s default behaviour affects validation, = particularly for anchors surrounding block level elements. The example = taken from the tracker above: <a href=3D"l1"><p>one</p></a> =E2=80=A6can result in: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> <a href=3D"l1"></a> <p>one</p> </body> </html> The future (and indeed the present) is HTML5, and at first this seems = like a reasonable assumption to make. On the other hand making this = assumptions can _seriously_ affect backwards compatibility for legacy = HTML that still lacks legacy DTD=E2=80=99s. Rather than repeat all of the pros and cons here, I will direct you = again to the [tracker](https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/issues/169) = in the event you would like to see current discussion. We welcome your feedback on any of these mailing lists, or on the github = tracker. Thank you. --- Jim Derry HTACG