[Laszlo-dev] copyright problem

[Lou Iorio]

That did fix the problem. xhtml bad. html good.


On May 15, 2008, at 10:29 AM, Lou Iorio wrote:

> 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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