[Typo3-dev] XHTML compliance

Christopher tombedlam at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 10 20:39:13 CET 2005


Hiya,

--- Wolfgang Klinger <wolfgang at stufenlos.net> wrote:

> 
>  Hello!
> 
>  On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Kraft Bernhard wrote the following:
> > You will surely know that such a thing as
> > <meta name="generator" content="TYPO3 3.7 CMS" />
> > is not valid in HTML 4.01 transitional (or other 4.x variants)
> > 
> > currently it is possible to set the doctype in Typo3.
> > 
> > As this is already possible the trailing / should just get
> outputted
> > id an XHTML variant is used.
> > 
> > 
> > What do you think about this.
> 
>  I think nothing of it...
>  XHTML is the de-facto standard for current and future websites.
>  Who validates HTML 4.0 pages?  
>  Move your efforts to more serious work ;-)
> 
>  In this case it's a small change but there's already too much of
> this
>  "backwards compatibility"-Thing(tm) concerning TYPO3, 
>  we should look into the future!

Maybe we should, but HTML 4.01 is a current standard - not deprecated
by the body that authored it - so, it should be possible for Typo3 to
output to that standard IMHO.

-Christopher



		
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