Re: Bug reports for texinfo (and 2 wishes)

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Karl!

On Son, 29 Jan 2006, Karl Berry wrote:
>     214729    makeinfo --html should generate valid HTML
>     --------------------------------------------------
>     makeinfo --html currently generates HTML without a DOCTYPE line.
>     It should generate valid HTML.
> 
> I do not agree this is a bug.  I've never seen doctype lines do anything
> but cause trouble (not in recent browsers, but in old ones).  makeinfo's
> HTML output is extremely vanilla and should work fine everywhere.

I guess the problem with the output is that it is not clear which
version of HTML the document is using. I have checked the texinfo.html
file with the validator and it is neither HTML 2.0 nor HTML 3.2.
WIth HTML 4.01 Transitional for texinfo.html I get only 4 errors.
(http://validator.w3.org/)

> I am not opposed to makeinfo acquiring more output formats, like "HTML4"
> and "XHTML, for those who care about such things, but it's not something
> I plan to work on in the foreseeable future.

So makeinfo --html already produces HTML4 (definitely not html2 or
html3, there are so many failures that I can't believe it.

I don't know about old browsers and wether they can display HTML4, but
maybe it would be indeed a good idea to add a doctype.

Best wishes

Norbert

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