winehq: Fix some HTML markup

Jeremy Newman jnewman at codeweavers.com
Thu Sep 10 15:26:47 CDT 2009


Reece Dunn wrote:
> 2009/9/10 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
>> 2009/9/10 Jeremy Newman <jnewman at codeweavers.com>:
>>
>>> The reason I left the XHTML markup in was eventually the goal was to convert
>>> the entire website to XHTML. The only issue with leaving them in while still
>>> in HTML4/Transitional is that the pages do not pass W3C validation. I am
>>> still willing to live with non-valid working HTML to save some work down the
>>> road.
>> XHTML is officially no longer developed - the future is HTML5, apparently.
> 
> XHTML 1.0 is essentially HTML as XML. Work on XHTML2 has stopped.
> HTML5 still supports the XML form (see
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/the-xhtml-syntax.html#the-xhtml-syntax)
> which supports XML namespaces (e.g. for MathML or SVG inline markup).

I'm happy to see the more strict XHTML die. I preferred the looser flow 
of HTML4 anyway.

-N



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