Re: [wsrp] WSRP and DOCTYPE

[Rich Thompson <richt2@us.ibm.com>]

Presumably any desire to communicate
this with the portlet would have to happen in the getMarkup message as
one can't assume all pages of the Consumer are identical. Do people see
this as a large enough need (impacts legacy html code) to add a field into
markupParams?

Rich

Subbu Allamaraju <subbu@bea.com>

10/28/2004 10:37 AM

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Subject	Re: [wsrp] WSRP and DOCTYPE

A use case came up recently at work. In this case,
the portlet markup is 
generated by a third-party reporting software. That software assumed 
quirks mode, but the consumer is setting strict mode. Currently, this 
was fixed by making the consumer set quirks mode DOCTYPE. I think they
had to fix some consumer-generated markup (for the aggregated page) to
make it render well in their browser-of-choice.

I'm not sure what happens if the consumer sets quirks mode but portlets
render standard mode.

The argument that was put to me is that if the producer is made aware of
the DOCTYPE by the consumer, we can at least say "I told you so"
:).

Is anyone aware of similar problems across other (non-html) markup types?

Subbu

Rich Thompson wrote:
> 
> Are there use cases where portlet developers are encouraged to write
> markup that requires quirky interpretation by the browser?
> 
> I can understand there might be a problem if the Consumer sets the
page 
> into strict mode and interpreting a portlet's markup requires quirky
> mode, but is there any problem with the inverse case (page in quirky
> mode and a portlet generates strict markup)?
> 
> Rich
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> *Subbu Allamaraju <subbu@bea.com>*
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> 10/26/2004 09:35 PM
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> I've question on how best to deal with DOCTYPE issues.
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> Browsers use DOCTYPE to determine whether to render a page in strict
> mode or quirks mode. This causes problems for WSRP, since portlets
will
> not have a clue of the DOCTYPE used by the consumer. So, the generated
> markup may not render correctly.
> 
> One possible solution is to let the consumer send the DOCTYPE to the
> producer. But, before submitting a change request for this, I would
like
> to know what markup experts in this group think?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Subbu
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