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May 6, 2008, 5:27 PM
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Re: [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [34167] trunk/phase3/includes/EditPage.php
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On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw[at]home.nl> wrote:
> Yes. <textarea /> violates standards and renders very nastily in
> Firefox: the rest of the HTML is treated as the textarea's content.
<textarea /> should never be output by anything; elements like
<textarea> that can (in this case, must) have content should *always*
be output as <textarea></textarea>, for compatibility, although
theoretically they're identical. This recommendation is in fact part
of the XHTML 1.0 standard, as an informative compatibility guideline:
"Given an empty instance of an element whose content model is not
EMPTY (for example, an empty title or paragraph) do not use the
minimized form (e.g. use <p> </p> and not <p />)."
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_3
Where we're using XHTML, I would suggest the Xml functions follow this
guideline automatically, unless that would cause conflicts with
non-XHTML uses of the functions (which I guess hypothetically could
exist?).
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Brion Vibber <brion[at]wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Since we serve as text/html to be compatible with common browsers
> (*cough IE cough*) we need to ensure that we only use the short
> <element/> form for elements which are implicitly closed in HTML 4 (eg,
> <br/> and <hr/> and <img/>).
Last I checked, and Roan's e-mail confirms this, Firefox also barfs on
the trailing-slash format for empty elements, even with an XHTML
doctype. Or is your point that it doesn't, if the MIME type is for
XML?
Anyway, I don't think we would want to serve with an XML MIME type
even if IE were out of the picture, given that that means any
well-formedness violation is an instant fatal error.
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