[TYPO3-core] RFC #9095: xhtml in the backend by default

[Benjamin Mack]

Hey Christian,

awesome! Thanks for that. Just commited the patch to trunk (#3977), as 
it is almost a non-functional change and we had quite a lot of "+1"s by 
reading.

greetings,
benni.
-SDG-

Christian Kuhn wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Benjamin Mack wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> this is a SVN patch request.
>>
>> Branches: trunk only
>>
>> Type: pure cleanup
>>
>> BT reference: http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=9095
>>
>> Problem: Well, if you look at the code of the BE classes, you see that 
>> there are many places where the template.php class is instantiated and 
>> then the xhtml doktype is set. as we all agreed to have xhtml as 
>> default, let's set this as default in template.html and get rid of all 
>> the lines that clutter our code to make it easier to read and to 
>> "not-have-to-think-about-adding-this-line" when coding new stuff.
>>
>> Solution:
>> Set the default in the switch/case to xhtml_trans and remove all the 
>> occurences in the core where this is set manually.
>>
>> Notes:
>> This does not change any functionality for anything in the core and if 
>> extensions still use this flag, nothing changes for them as well, it 
>> just makes the core code more readable and more compact in my eyes.
> 
> +1 on reading and testing.
> 
> Attached a new patch to fix issues mentioned by Ernesto, Oliver and Dmitry:
> - Align break; with code in typo3/template.php
> - Fix comment of $docType in typo3/template.php
> - Add fallthrough comment to switch in typo3/template.php
> - Fixed a failing Hunk in typo3/alt_file_navframe.php
> 
> Thanks
> Christian