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Re: Replace HTML4 doctype declaration
From: |
Patrice Dumas |
Subject: |
Re: Replace HTML4 doctype declaration |
Date: |
Mon, 20 Dec 2021 01:05:29 +0100 |
On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 03:46:20PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 09:08:24AM +0900, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> > Is there a place *now* where HTML4 is a requirement ? HTML5 is the only
> > *current* standard and does not specifically target web applications.
> >
>
> We output HTML4 to get some flexibility in the output, but I am not sure
> how useful the HTML4 doctype declaration is any more and perhaps we should
> switch to the simpler HTML5 "<!DOCTYPE html>" header. It looks like we are
> trying to conform to a standard that nobody cares about anymore.
We output quite compliant HTML4, though not fully compliant, more css
should be used to replace obsolete attributes for instance.
> Does anybody object if I go and change texi2any to output this instead of
> the HTML4 Transitional doctype?
>
> As far as I remember the main difference is the use of the <tt> tag which
> has been removed from the standard, but I am sure there are other usages
> too. It will have been discussed on this list before.
It is not the only change. There are actually quite a bit of changes,
the validation as HTML5 with the new DOCTYPE is not very good.
--
Pat
- Re: texi to epub, (continued)
- Re: texi to epub, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2021/12/16
- Replace HTML4 doctype declaration, Gavin Smith, 2021/12/18
- Re: Replace HTML4 doctype declaration, Per Bothner, 2021/12/18
- Re: Replace HTML4 doctype declaration, Jacob Bachmeyer, 2021/12/18
- Re: Replace HTML4 doctype declaration, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2021/12/18
- Re: Replace HTML4 doctype declaration, Gavin Smith, 2021/12/19
- Re: Replace HTML4 doctype declaration, Jacob Bachmeyer, 2021/12/19
- Re: Replace HTML4 doctype declaration, Patrice Dumas, 2021/12/19
- Re: Replace HTML4 doctype declaration, Jacob Bachmeyer, 2021/12/19
- Re: Replace HTML4 doctype declaration, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2021/12/20
- Re: Replace HTML4 doctype declaration,
Patrice Dumas <=
- Re: Replace HTML4 doctype declaration, Gavin Smith, 2021/12/20
- Re: Replace HTML4 doctype declaration, Patrice Dumas, 2021/12/20
- Re: texi to epub, Per Bothner, 2021/12/16
- Re: texi to epub, Gavin Smith, 2021/12/18
- Re: texi to epub, Jacob Bachmeyer, 2021/12/18
- Re: texi to epub, Patrice Dumas, 2021/12/16
- Re: texi to epub, Per Bothner, 2021/12/16
- Re: texi to epub, Patrice Dumas, 2021/12/16
- Re: texi to epub, Gavin Smith, 2021/12/18
- Re: texi to epub, Patrice Dumas, 2021/12/18