Re: Replace HTML4 doctype declaration

[Patrice Dumas]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 07:24:01AM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 01:05:29AM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Could we (you) use the HTML4 DTD to validate texi2any's output?  Is that
> what you did before?

Yes.

> Please note I am not proposing we use any of the new tags introduced in
> HTML5, as there is no apparent need for them and we like to support old
> browsers for as long as possible.  (They could gradually come in over time
> as there is a need to use them.)

But then this means that we will have many useless information about non
validity when validating which makes it harder to find real issues.  It
may not be that problematic, using validation to debug is not something
that I do that oten after the first step, but I would have thought that
over time we tried to converge towards something as valid as possible.

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Pat