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Re: [lmi] [lmi-commits] master 3da2e92 5/5: Follow a w3.org recommendati
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Greg Chicares |
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Re: [lmi] [lmi-commits] master 3da2e92 5/5: Follow a w3.org recommendation although it seems weird |
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Mon, 15 Feb 2021 15:11:48 +0000 |
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On 2/14/21 11:30 PM, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 11:53:50 -0500 (EST) Greg Chicares
> <gchicares@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
[...]
> GC> validator.w3.org warns against "https" in a System Identifier, and
> GC> recommends "http" instead.
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> Just in case: this is not really weird because the URL here is just a
> unique string identifying the doctype, the browsers don't actually follow
> it, they just recognize the string by matching it literally.
https://w3ctag.github.io/web-https/
| The Web platform should be designed to actively prefer secure
| communication — typically, by encouraging use of "https://";
| URLs instead of "http://"; ones (although exceptions like
| "localhost" do exist).
So I guess this is another exotic special-case exception. I just don't see
why they didn't resolve it by permitting "https" in System Identifiers.
> Also, this might be a somewhat bigger change, but there is no reason at
> all to bother with this cryptic DTD stuff since quite a few years, in HTML
> 5 it's just "<!DOCTYPE html>", see
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> https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#the-doctype
Is there any reason to migrate lmi's '.html' files to HTML5?