Using Standard HTML (1997)

Re:Using Standard HTML (1997) by vbezhenar on Sunday January 19, 2020 @10:23AM (#22091866)

Does every popular browser support it in the same way? I would expect some subtle differences, because this mode is not very popular and probably not as tested as standard HTML.

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Re:Using Standard HTML (1997) by Terretta on Sunday January 19, 2020 @10:40AM (#22091970)

On the contrary, part of the point of XHTML is you can reference the document type definition (DTD) so everyone would be on the same page.

https://www.w3.org/wiki/Doctypes_and_markup_styles

For example...

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

... is the XHTML 1.0 equivalent of HTML 4.01 except it won't validate loose HTML style markup, it all needs to be well formed XML.

That said, for HTML5 ...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1570418/if-i-use-html-5s...

Ten years ago they thought that should work a while. Looks like it.

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Re:Using Standard HTML (1997) by vbezhenar on Monday January 20, 2020 @05:06AM (#22097772)

Thanks, those are definitely good things. I never had much thought about it, but I definitely was bitten more than once by those auto-closing and auto-generating HTML tags, so strict XML might be a good alternative. Definitely will try it next time.

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Re:Using Standard HTML (1997) by garaetjjte on Monday January 20, 2020 @11:12AM (#22099806)

Note that XHTML must be served with application/xhtml+xml content-type.

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