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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Cc: "Jason Yundt" <jason@jasonyundt.email>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: switch to a modern DOCTYPE
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2022 23:10:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqa6avppci.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YpgHUm93840oBtib@camp.crustytoothpaste.net> (brian m. carlson's message of "Thu, 2 Jun 2022 00:41:54 +0000")

"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

>> While that DOCTYPE is still valid [2], it has several disadvantages:
>> 
>> 1. It’s misleading. The DTD that browsers are supposed to use with that
>>    DOCTYPE has nothing to do with XHTML 1.0 and isn’t available at the URL
>>    that is given [2].
>
> While the WHATWG may claim that, an XML parser is absolutely within its
> rights to refer to and use that DTD, and in fact should do so unless its
> catalog directs it elsewhere.  It may be that some browsers use an
> internal catalog that refers to a different DTD, however.
>
>> diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
>> index 606b50104c..1835487ab2 100755
>> --- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
>> +++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
>> @@ -4219,7 +4219,10 @@ sub git_header_html {
>>  	my $mod_perl_version = $ENV{'MOD_PERL'} ? " $ENV{'MOD_PERL'}" : '';
>>  	print <<EOF;
>>  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>> -<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
>> +<!DOCTYPE html [
>> +	<!ENTITY nbsp "&#xA0;">
>> +	<!ENTITY sdot "&#x22C5;">
>> +]>
>
> I think this should be fine.  It defines the entities we need and
> appears to be valid XML.  I don't think there should be any problem
> upgrading to XHTML 5 here.

OK, so in short, the patch text looks OK and the proposed log
message needs a bit more work?

Thanks.



  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-02  6:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-01  1:26 [PATCH] gitweb: switch to a modern DOCTYPE Jason Yundt
2022-06-02  0:41 ` brian m. carlson
2022-06-02  6:10   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2022-06-02  7:26 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2022-06-02 11:43 ` [PATCH v2] gitweb: switch to an XHTML5 DOCTYPE Jason Yundt
2022-06-02 18:50   ` Junio C Hamano
2022-06-02 19:51     ` Jason Yundt
2022-06-02 21:47     ` brian m. carlson
2022-06-02 22:09       ` Junio C Hamano

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