Re: [docbook-apps] Simpler XHTML output

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Dave Pawson wrote:

> Jirka, is your objection just that todays IEx won't render this content?
> Is that a valid reason not to use it?

Is it valid to create content that will not be usable for let say 90% 
percent of users, when you can publish the same content in almost same 
format that will be accessible for 99.999% of users?

There is no difference between XHTML 1.1 and XHTML 1.0 other than Ruby 
annotations. I don't suppose that anyone is using DocBoo+Ruby, so using 
XHTML 1.0 should be sufficient.

I'm fan of emerging technologies, but OTOH IMHO technology should serve 
people. So I preffer to use technologies that are working for most 
people and are standards compliant at the same time. Due to fatal bugs 
in IE which is the most commonly used browser, it is not possible to use 
XHTML 1.1 in compliance with standards. In this situation I prefer to 
use XHTML 1.0 which works for users and which I can publish in a way 
that is standards compliant.

(BTW: To be honest, I usualy even prefer HTML 4.01, because even with 
XHTML 1.0 there are some practical browser problems if you want to use 
it with other encodings than UTF-8. But I don't think that we should 
delve into standards/quirks rendering modes in browsers in this forum.)

> How else might we move towards browsers that are standards compliant?

Who knows :-(
But I'm sure that serving non-compliant content is not the right way to 
move further, and serving XHTML 1.1 as text/html is not completely in 
shape with standards so it moves us somewhere but surely not to place 
which is more standards compliant.

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