Re: xhtml compatibility guideline

Hi Petr,

Have you tested browser to find out which ones aren't compatible with the
short tags (<br/>)?

It might be compelling to change things if it breaks a lot of browsers,
but if the ony ones it is breaking are IE3 and NS3, then it isn't really
worth fixing.  There is nothing in the spec (that I know of) to say
to leave the extra space.  I think it is just a
recommendation.  The thing is, how big of a deal is this?  I
guess you will have to tell us if you notice any compatibility problems
in your app because of the way XMLC's xhtml dom outputs <br/>
instead of <br />.

Glad to hear things are working for you otherwise.  Now we have to
build XHTML components in Barracuda to support XHTML as they only support
HTML right now.  Shouldn't take a whole lot of effort.

Jake

At 03:49 PM 12/19/2002 +0100, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thanks to your help I finally got the damn xhtml source files
> compiled
> and then generated by Enhydra. Good news is that everything seems to
> be
> OK - no lost </h2> tags or anything like that. BTW, I was
> rather
> surprised that the formatting of the original xhtml is preserved -
> i.e.
> it didn't strip all the whitespaces and end-of-line characters like
> it
> usually dooes for plain html. Why?
>
> One important question: XHTML Compatibility Guidelines (compatibility
> of
> XHTML with HTML browsers) says that the single tags without a
> closing
> tag (<br />) should keep a space between the tag and the
> "/>"). The
> XHTML files I have here follows this rule but the generated stream
> doesn't contain it.
>
> So source : <br />
> but result: <br/>
>
> It's weird considering that all other white spaces were preserved. 
> I
> would say that it should be the other way round - it should be one
> LOOONG line (as enhydra likes to produce) but this particular
> important
> white space should be preserved for the compatibility with HTML
> browsers.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Petr
>
>
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