If one tells someone, who is not that well versed the world of XHTML, to
create a XHTML file in a XMLmind editor, it should normally not be
necessary to remind them to please pick the 5.0 format.
But in XMLmind XML editor, when one wants to create a new XHTML 5 file,
the latest and most updated version of the XHTML language is located at
the bottom of the XHTML submenu of the New command. The same goes for
Docbook. (Fortunately, for DITA, there is just one level.) (This issue
is more 'pressing' in the XMLmind XML Editor than it is in the XMLmind
XHTML Editor, as the selection of formats is longer in in the former
editor.)
For XHTML and Docbook, I would like to propose that the choice of file
formats should be presented to the user in the opposite order (opposite
of today’s order). That is: Just beneath the XHTML submenu, one
should, on top, find the 5.0 submenu. And then, the 1.1 submenu. And the
1.0 submenu at the bottom. This way, the latest version, is placed on
the top and thus most easily accessible.
My main concern is that one should not have to know which version of
e.g. XHTML to pick: If you are a not so well versed XHTML author, you
probably want the XHTML.latest.version - only nerds and persons with
very spesific wishes and concerns prefer XHTML 1.x over XHTML 5.x. Thus
the user interface should make it fastest and simplest to pick the
latest version - for instance by placing those file formats on top. (At
least as long as the latest version cannot be concidered experimental.)
Leif Halvard Silli
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