Re: still too early for XHTML :-((

Given that XHTML *is* XML, I think they have to be considered equivalent.

>
> Try this...
>
> <script type="text/javascript" src="ie6bug.js"></script>
>
> I'm actually not sure why the w3c validator reports your page as valid
> XHTML because I'm pretty sure that the </script> end tag is required
> instead of the shortcut tag.
>
> If XMLC, by default, modifies your <script></script> to <script /> or
> if  you create a <scipt> element via the DOM and XMLC writes it as
> <script />  instead of <script></script>, then that is a bug in XMLC.
> Let's say I'm  wrong about this, for arguments sake, and the standards
> actually say that  the shortcut <script /> tag *is* valid XHTML.  At
> the very least, using  <script></script> instead of <script /> is a
> perfectly HTML/XHTML  compatible way to import javascript files.  This
> wouildn't be an IE only  hack.  This would be totally compatible with
> standards if XMLC did it this way.
>
> Jake
>
> At 02:29 PM 4/7/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>as you may recall from my occassional posts here, I have been trying to
>>use XHTML with Enhydra for several months already. I patched various
>>things in Enhydra/XMLC (some fixes, some hacks) in order to get it
>>working and was almost happy - until I decided to try also non-Gecko
>>browsers. After some hours of debugging IE6 problems I managed to
>>isolate a possible bug in SCRIPT tag handling:
>>
>>http://www.prevue.cz/ie6bug.html
>>
>>For me it seems as a clear evidence that I wasted my time on the XHTML
>>for nothing. If the latest browser with 95% market share is unable to
>>load javascript file then XHTML is completely unusable.
>>
>>I don't think XMLC/Enhydra would be modified in the way it outputs the
>>SCRIPT tag just to fix this buggy behaviour of IE. Or am I wrong and
>>such patch would be accepted in the mainline?
>>
>>Anyway, I'll most probably convert my XHTML files to HTML, change the
>>XMLC parser back to the default one and be happy again.
>>
>>Petr
>>
>>
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