Bug#98811: Web pages using deprecated HTML syntax
Package: www.debian.org
Version: contact.en.wml v. 1.23
Severity: minor
The page I'm just working on (I'm a french translator of Debian web pages) contains tags
which are - accordingly to the most recent W3C recommandations (XHTML 1.1) - no longer valid
HTML.
Those recommandations say (amongst many other things) that in the future :
1) HTML tags *must* be in lowercase ;
2) ALL HTML-markup *must* have a start *and* an end tag.
So, taking as an example what I found in the "contact" page, "<H2>text</H2> should become
"<h2>text</h2>", "<UL>" should become "<ul>" etc...
"<LI>List item" have to be changed into "<li>list item</li>"
"<p>paragraphs" become "<p>paragraphs</p>" etc.,
"empty" tags (as <hr> and <br>, which generally don't contain any text) need an end tag as
well. In these special cases, the end tag can be integrated in the start tag, so now they
will have to be written as "<hr />" and "<br />", "<img ...>" as "<img ... />"...
There's no problem with the actual browsers yet, but you'll have to be aware that future
browsers may no longer care about what once were the oldest HTML versions. The W3C
recommends compliance to the newest HTML rules as soon as possible.
I suppose this problem has some chances to occur on all the pages...
for reference : http://www.w3c.org
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