[Marketing] (x)HTML standard for new site?

[Lachlan Cannon]

Martin Burns wrote:
> Thoughts?

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. I don't see it mattering much 
either way. If we convert to xhtml then we can easily run content 
through something like HTML tidy, and tweak where needed (and no we 
obviously couldn't do it all at once. We could have a list of articles 
which needed to be checked to go through).

Personally, I think that because of the perception of XHTML we're best 
off going with that for an upgrade, not to mention that a lot of tools 
are going the xhtml way too, which is an important point to bear in mind.

WRT to the mime-type issue, it's perfectly valid to serve xhtml as 
text/html. Yes it may not be 'proper' xhtml, but frankly, who gives a 
shit. It doesn't matter. There's no benefit to sending the 'proper' 
mimetype and a lot of downsides.
-- 
Lach
http://illuminosity.net/