[dev] Markup Validation

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Fri Mar 13 05:03:56 UTC 2009


Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

>>>>> 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?
>>>
>>> I'd say Transitional. We don't gain anything with Strict, we would
>>> probably have similar issues with IE6 like we would have with XHTML,
>>> we won't have to rewrite anything (at least not much) of the current
>>> markup if using Transitional, and it makes more sense to directly skip
>>> to HTML5 instead.
>>
>> So are you for going to HTML 4 transitional, or straight to HTML 5?
>
> 4 Transitional, it's too early for 5 IMO.

Agreed - just wanted to make sure that's what you were saying.

-chuck


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