Subject: Re: [PATCH] Removes the <?xml?> declaration from gitweb.pl

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 23:21:17 +0200

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