On Wed, 23 Mar 2022 at 22:54, José Abílio Matos <jama...@lyx.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 23 March 2022 20.12.23 WET Thibaut Cuvelier wrote:
>
> > XHTML 1 dates back from 2001... LyX generates XHTML 5, but the doctype
> is kept
>
> > from XHTML 1 for compatibility issues (some browsers completely change
> their
>
> > behaviour based on the doctype). The issue has been discussed on the
> mailing
>
> > list a while ago.
>
> At some point this decision can be revisited.
>
> It is question of deciding what are the browsers that we are interested to
> support. Because of the security associated issues the browsers are kept
> more up to date now than before so probably at some point this becomes a
> non issue.
>

I believe the browsers were quite recent, then:
http://lists.lyx.org/pipermail/lyx-devel/2020-September/003434.html
Now that the code matured quite a bit, maybe it could help to switch to XML
entities instead of HTML entities (i.e. to have &#x1234; instead of
&SomeHtmlEntityName;).
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