Re: [Lynx-dev] Re: progress on dev.10

[David Woolley]

Thomas Dickey wrote:

> * parse doctype for xhtml, to tell when empty tags such as "<textarea 
> />" can
>   be discarded (report by Nils Dagsson Moskopp) -TD

This should be conditioned on the media type not on the DOCTYPE.
> > And I can't access links on remote pages. It's like if I was accessing 
> > a text file, but with some colors. FTP links work.
>
> I see (on your example).  It's one of the xhtml pages...

When I downloaded it with Firefox, it was an "HTML" page (i.e. XHTML 
with Appendix C limitations, intended to be read in error recovery mode 
by an HTML browser).

To the author of that page, could I point out that the use of Appendix C 
(XHTML served as HTML) is being more and more questioned.  The problemes 
are that:

- it has internal inconsistencies;
- it is resulting in a large amount of invalid and even not well formed 
XHTML being in the field.
>
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