[Javascript] Javascript detection

[Paul Novitski]

At 1/2/2007 01:40 PM, David Dorward wrote:
> > href="switchboard.php?something=123456&dest=contact.php">Contact Us</a>
>
>Ampersands followed by non-name characters must be represented by
>entities.
...
> >         <form action="contact.php">
>
>Forms use GET by default.
...
> >                 <input type="hidden" value="123456" name="something" />
>
>Strict varients of (X)HTML (which I hope we are all using) require
>child elements of forms to be block level


I appreciate your vigilance, David.  Actually I was deliberately 
omitting everything but the bare essentials necessary to demonstrate 
my points in order to provide clear examples, presenting a kind of 
pseudocode and not complete, validatable markup.  I probably should 
have appended that caveat.


>... but lets avoid XHTML for the most part. In the majority of cases,
>its a lot of trouble for no benefit, and is usually done wrong.

Unless I'm misunderstanding, I disagree with this point.  I don't 
find the rule-set of XHTML-Strict to be at all onerous; in fact its 
very strictness and consistency provides a lack of ambiguity I'm 
quite comfortable with.  More to your point, though, I'm one of those 
ne'er-do-wells who's been serving up XHTML as text/html to 
accommodate IE.  I use XHTML-Strict because a) it's the future and b) 
it works, even served with the text/html content-type and no xml 
prolog, very consistently in my target browsers and c) heck, I 
already shifted from HTML to XHTML and I don't want to have to get 
back into those old habits for another year or two just to have to 
switch back again.  I hope it gets me a lighter sentence that I 
promise to serve it up as xml as soon as an XHTML-compatible IE 
version gains sufficient market share.

This is off-topic here but I'd be open to arguments to the contrary 
off-list or in one of the other lists we're both members of.

Warm regards,
Paul