Subject: Re: XHTML
From: sam th (sam@bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 27 2000 - 10:32:55 CST
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On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eric W. Sink" <eric@sourcegear.com>
> To: "Paul Rohr" <paul@abisource.com>
> Cc: "sam th" <sam@bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu>;
> <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 11:50 PM
> Subject: Re: XHTML
>
>
> > Basically, I agree with this. I just feel like restating it
> > for the sake of redundancy:
> >
> > 1. XHTML and HTML are distinct formats. For the purpose of
> > implementation, we should treat them as completely unrelated.
> >
> > 2. An HTML exporter is an important feature now. An
> > XHTML exporter is a more forward-looking idea. Having
> > both is okay. Replacing our HTML exporter with XHTML
> > is not okay, since HTML is widely supported
> > by other vendors and XHTML is not.
>
> An XHTML exporter is really just a HTML exporter where all elements are
> closed (not nesseccary in HTML), empty elements contain a extra / and
> all tags are written in lowercase.
>
> XHTML will work properly in *all* browsers which support the HTML
> standard, actually much better than most HTML that is out there (not
> valid => difficult to parse).
In fact, it (abiword-generated XHTML) works in every browser I could run
on my machine.
>
> I see no need for *two* exporters, one for HTML and one for XHTML, since
> XHTML will work in all HTML UAs. That's like saying we need one exporter
> for HTML 4, one for HTML 3 and one for HTML 2. HTML 4.01 documents will
> work ok in HTML 3.2 browsers, since the browsers would ignore the new
> 4.01 elements/attributes. XHTML contains *no* new elements/attributes
> ...
AbiWord doesn't even use any of the new feature of HTML 4.0. The XHTML
generated by AbiWord (with the patch I recently submitted) even validates
as HTML 3.2. Sadly, it doesn't validate for HTML 2.0. So, as long as the
browser supports standards from 1996, it will properly display the XHTML
we generate.
>
> --#
> Karl Ove Hufthammer
>
>
Good to know someone aggrees with me.
sam th
sytobinh@uchicago.edu
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