[Laszlo-dev] copyright problem

[Lou Iorio]

I knew most (but not all) of this. Thanks for the details.

I'll make the change and check the next nightly build.

Lou

On May 15, 2008, at 9:37 AM, P T Withington wrote:

> I think we all got caught up in the XHTML bandwagon for a while and  
> thought it was the right thing.  We now know that it is not  
> (because Firefox is the only browser that _actually_ processes  
> XHTML, and it is so strict that it will display nothing at all if  
> you have the slightest error, and we are not actually serving our  
> XHTML as application/xhtml+xml as is required.  All the browsers  
> are treating our XHTML as invalid HTML that they process in quirks  
> mode, which is a bad thing.  So, we should change this to generate  
> HTML 4.1 IMO.  See: http://webkit.org/blog/68/understanding-html- 
> xml-and-xhtml/ for more background, but you probably knew all this.)
>
> On 2008-05-15, at 08:56 EDT, Lou Iorio wrote:
>
>> There is a problem in trunk/quick-index.html (LPP-5863) where the  
>> copyright is displayed
>> like this:
>>
>> Copyright ?? 2002-2008
>>
>> This problem does not exist on my local build (Mac), but it shows  
>> up in the nightly build.
>>
>> I tried to fix this in trunk/quick-index.xsl by replacing the  
>> copyright symbol with the entity
>> ©
>>
>> Again, this works on my local build, but not nightly.
>>
>> The only thing I see that I don't get is this in the xsl file:
>>
>>    <xsl:output
>>      doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
>>      doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1- 
>> strict.dtd" />
>>
>> I don't know if this is related to the problem, but why are we  
>> outputting xhtml?
>> I'd like to remove this and see if it fixes the problem, but I  
>> thought I'd check to
>> see if there's a good reason for it being there.
>>
>> Lou
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