Hi,
I'm thinking about using the html5 doctype for all html documents since it's supported by all the popular browsers available today.
Two Quick questions...
Why do we need to send XHTML code to a web browser when standard html code (with html 5 doctype) will do just fine?
Is there any advantage of using xhtml in the web browser over html for normal web application development?
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Raymond Irving
--- On Tue, 4/14/09, Peter Ford <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Peter Ford <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Generate XHTML (HTML compatible) Code using DOMDocument
> To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 5:05 AM
> Michael Shadle wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Michael A. Peters
> <mpeters@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> >> The problem is that validating xhtml does not
> necessarily render properly in
> >> some browsers *cough*IE*cough*
> >
> > I've never had problems and my work is primarily
> around IE6 / our
> > corporate standards. Hell, even without a script type
> it still works
> > :)
> >
> >> Would this function work for sending html and
> solve the utf8 problem?
> >>
> >> function makeHTML($document) {
> >> $buffer =
> $document->saveHTML();
> >> $output =
> html_entity_decode($buffer,ENT_QUOTES,"UTF-8");
> >> return $output;
> >> }
> >>
> >> I'll try it and see what it does.
> >
> > this was the only workaround I received for the
> moment, and I was a
> > bit afraid it would not process the full range of
> utf-8; it appeared
> > on a quick check to work but I wanted to run it on our
> entire database
> > and then ask the native geo folks to examine it for
> correctness.
>
> I find that IE7 (at least) is pretty reliable as long as I
> use strict XHTML and
> send a DOCTYPE header to that effect at the top - that
> seems to trigger a
> standard-compliant mode in IE7.
> At least then I only have to worry about the JavaScript
> incompatibilities, and
> the table model, and the event model, and ....
>
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