[TYPO3-dev] <base> tag and IE6

[Dmitry Dulepov [typo3]]

Elmar Hinz wrote:
>> You overestimate it by saying "every developer". And the answer is "no"
>> because it will violate part 12.4 of HTML specification, which says:
> 
> Hello Dmitry,
> 
> I am sorry to need to correct you again. From the statements of multiple
> core developers in the NG Content Redering Team you can conclude that TYPO3
> targets XHTML specification since version 4.0 at least. 
> 
> This means, that HTML 4.01 is obsolete for TYPO3 core since version 4.0. As
> XHTML 1.1 is still in draft state, it's obviously that XHTML 1.0 [1] is the
> current specification for T3. 
> 
> Also note, that it has been recommended at the time of the 4.0 release to
> use UTF-8. I remember that this was an important difference to 3.8. I can't
> give the source, but I guess you can find that in some of the documents
> upon internationalization published by Kasper at that time.
> 
> Recommended in this sense means, that UTF-8 still was not the default setup,
> but that advanced and professional users should already configure it in
> this way.
> 
> Recommending UTF-8 implicitely means to give priority to the use of MySQL5
> to MySQL4, because it is much better prepared for that. 
> 
> 
> To summerize the state at version 4.0:
> 
> XHTML (standard) 
> PHP5 (enabled)
> UTF-8 (recommended)
> MySQL5 (recommended)
> 
> Meanwhile time and versions have passed. It is obvious that PHP5 and MySQL5
> is recommoneded by the majority of the leading extension and core
> developers, while PHP4 is still supported.
> 
> I would appreciate, if you would take this status into account when giving
> recommendations according software versions for T3.  

I read your message twice. But I failed to understand what exactly you 
are trying to correct. Did you try to correct my statement that "every 
developer" is overestimate? What sources of statistics do you have?

I also cannot remember where you corrected me first time. Missed that I 
afraid...

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Dmitry Dulepov
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