Re: [Phpwiki-talk] linking scheme and markup

[Jeff D. <da...@da...>]

On Fri, 09 Nov 2001 10:24:46 +0000
"Reini Urban" <ru...@x-...> wrote:
 
> not really. xhtml is backwards compatible. 
> you can simply output xhtml and every browser will render it.


Thanks Gary & Reini for the XHTML primer.
It seems XHTML is backwards compatible with HTML 4, if one takes
certain precautions.  See
  http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xhtml1-20011004/#guidelines

As long as older browsers will have only minor-ish cosmetic problems
with XHTML, I do think it's time to make that move.  (The new CSS
stuff exhibits significant cosmetic problems on older (and some newer)
browsers, anyway.)

The biggest problem I see is in the transform code.  I know there's some
pretty kludgy code currently in 1.3 which is concerned with making sure
the <p>s are properly </p>ed.  It would be nice to clean that up.

(I am planning on re-writing the transform code sometime, to make
fancy marked-up diff output possible, among other things.  But,
as usual, it might be awhile before I get to it.)