273134 - promotional buttons page lists non-conforming XHTML

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven]

The page located in the URL only shows HTML, it is not ready for dropping into a
well-formed XHTML page, since it will break on the <img> tag not ending with />.

Comment 1

[Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven]

Attachment: Diff for changing to well-formed XHTML

Done with the doctor.cgi one.  Hopefully it works like this.

Comment 2

[Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven]

Actually, XHTML also deprecated/removed the object argument to the <img> tag.

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

this is WONTFIX, see http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 233826 ***

Comment 4

[Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven]

I fail to see the importance of the URL you quote with regard to the issue I raise.

Firefox is being touted as a standards compliant browser.  And just providing
HTML code for the buttons is limiting yourself to the realm of the old browser days.

Where in my report did you read I was sending XHTML/XML/MathML/SVG documents as
text/html?  In fact my webserver is serving this as application/xhtml+xml, the
very most standard way to do so.
I was merely trying to point out that providing both HTML and XHTML code
snippets is the way it should have been done on that page.

I was unclear in my first text, but the resulting comment and WONTFIX status is
not even close to *try* seeing what the submitter was trying to communicate across.

Hopefully this clears it.  If there is anything else that is not clear, feel
free to ask.

Comment 5

[Robert Accettura [:raccettura]]

this really is a wontfix

95%+ visitors of that page don't know what XHTML is.  The target is casual
bloggers and webmasters, not web developers.  Showing both would confuse casual
users "which should I use".  

The other chunk... won't care, and use whatever they see first.

Any webdeveloper who wants to use the correct XHTML, will be looking at it,
rather than just copy/pasting... and fix it accordingly.


So there's no reason to deter people from adding buttons because of complexity.  


Web Developers who care about XHTML will adjust it.  Casual bloggers won't even
look twice at the code, and will not know XHTML from HTML.

Comment 6

[Anne (:annevk)]

This is WONTFIX, please leave it that way. Bugzilla is also not the place to
discuss this kind of things.

HTML 4.01 is perfectly standard compliant.