On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 03:46:20PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote: > On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 09:08:24AM +0900, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > > Is there a place *now* where HTML4 is a requirement ? HTML5 is the only > > *current* standard and does not specifically target web applications. > > > > We output HTML4 to get some flexibility in the output, but I am not sure > how useful the HTML4 doctype declaration is any more and perhaps we should > switch to the simpler HTML5 "<!DOCTYPE html>" header. It looks like we are > trying to conform to a standard that nobody cares about anymore.
We output quite compliant HTML4, though not fully compliant, more css should be used to replace obsolete attributes for instance. > Does anybody object if I go and change texi2any to output this instead of > the HTML4 Transitional doctype? > > As far as I remember the main difference is the use of the <tt> tag which > has been removed from the standard, but I am sure there are other usages > too. It will have been discussed on this list before. It is not the only change. There are actually quite a bit of changes, the validation as HTML5 with the new DOCTYPE is not very good. -- Pat
