From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:21:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Removes the <?xml?> declaration from gitweb.pl
Message-ID: <200610122321.18630.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200610120745.00909.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

Robin Rosenberg wrote:
> onsdag 11 oktober 2006 23:27 skrev Jakub Narebski:
> > Pazu wrote:
> > > The XML declaration forces IE6 into quirks mode, breaking our
> > > nice standards compliant stylesheet.
> >
> > But isn't it _required_ by XML/XHTML?
> 
> For pure XML document it is required, but not for XHTML, unless the encoding 
> is something other than UTF-8 or (shudder) UTF-16. W3C recommends it though.

So what should be our decision? Honor IE quirks ;-) and either remove
XML declaration, or use Transitional DTD? Add back SPC to &nbsp; conversion
in esc_html? Ignore broken browsers?
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland