[dev] Markup Validation

Matt Selsky selsky at columbia.edu
Thu Mar 12 16:48:38 UTC 2009


On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 07:17:15PM -0500, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

> Speaking of this (and thanks for the patch) - I propose switching to  
> either HTML 4.01 or HTML 5 for our doctype. It would have to be a  
> gradual thing since we've got a lot of xhtml markup now, but the  
> thinking on xhtml has evolved a lot in the last 5+ years. Supporting  
> arguments:
>
> http://webkit.org/blog/68/understanding-html-xml-and-xhtml/
> http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml

+1 for switching to HTML 4.01.  Would we use Strict or Transitional?  
How to we switch in an orderly fashion?


-- 
Matt


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