The way it works is that you can use the XHTML "spelling" (ie. closing your tags), but you serve it up as normal HTML.<br><br><a href="http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#Should_I_close_empty_elements_with_.2F.3E_or_.3E.3F">http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#Should_I_close_empty_elements_with_.2F.3E_or_.3E.3F</a><br>
<br>There's no Strict or similar thing in HTML5, AFAIK.<br><br>(There is also something informally referred to as "XHTML5" which is serving it as XML, which isn't what we want to do)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Laurence Rowe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:l@lrowe.co.uk">l@lrowe.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
By my reading of the html 5 draft, it would seem conformant with the<br>
(html5) spec to serve a document with a text/html Content-Type but an<br>
XHTML Strict doctype.<br>
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On 16 March 2010 20:14, Alexander Limi <<a href="mailto:limi@plone.org">limi@plone.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> What does transitional doctype have to do with geolocation?<br>
><br>
> (and XHTML STRICT is a problem, since it implies serving with XML MIME type,<br>
> which IE doesn't handle, so that's unlikely to happen)<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Veda Williams <<a href="mailto:veda@groundwire.org">veda@groundwire.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> This brings up the question of when we're moving away from Transitional<br>
>> DOCTYPE. Do we have a sense of when this will happen? I'm particularly keen<br>
>> on knowing, as it opens up the door for us in terms of geolocation in the<br>
>> next year or so.<br>
>> Thanks,<br>
>> - Veda<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Mar 16, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Alexander Limi wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Wichert Akkerman <<a href="mailto:wichert@wiggy.net">wichert@wiggy.net</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> I'ld like to see a list of pros and cons of using HTML 5 as well. I am<br>
>>> quite worried by the lack of proper support in existing browsers. None of<br>
>>> them implement any of the existing HTML standards properly, and I fear that<br>
>>> switching to the still unfinished HTML5 would be a several steps too far at<br>
>>> this point in time.<br>
>><br>
>> What parts in particular do you find are not working? Browsers that don't<br>
>> have dedicated support for HTML5 will just treat those tags similar to div<br>
>> elements (given an HTML5 shiv for styling to apply in IE), and most of the<br>
>> new form-related enhancements are additive in nature.<br>
>><br>
>> In general, HTML5 renders even on IE6, there isn't much magic here (but of<br>
>> course it doesn't get any of the advantages either). HTML5 is mostly about<br>
>> standardizing edge case behaviors and adding new abilities that will<br>
>> gracefully degrade in older browsers — and then a few new tags like<br>
>> video/audio (that are also relatively easy to make degrade) and structural<br>
>> elements like article/footer, etc.<br>
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