macports website

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

On Jul 17, 2009, at 1:27 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Jul 14, 2009, at 05:58, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
>
>> I wonder, what were the advantages of going with XHTML to begin with?
>
> I haven't been terribly active in web development in some years, but  
> when I was, XHTML was the new hotness and the recommended way to  
> code websites. Perhaps Juan had the same background when he coded  
> the current version of the site. (I believe it was Juan, yes?)
>

	Yes, it was me who coded the "new" website back some years ago. And  
yes, that's my precise background and that's why I chose xhtml over  
html. Looking back, though, I do admit it was most probably a mistake  
to go for 1.1 rather than just 1.0 or maybe even 1.0 transitional, but  
it's been so long that I don't remember why I made that particular  
decision (could have been an innocent copy & paste operation, a  
Dreamweaver preset, gremlins, who knows).

	So, if the site now works even on IE 6 (thanks to Ryan's work!), I  
don't see what the point is in changing the doctype for the sole sake  
of cross-browser compatibility (IE 6? what more can you ask for??? ;).  
I would say, lets safe that energy for another facelift & revamp of  
the entire site, even I find my work to be showing its age pretty bad  
already, that design is so Safari 1.0 days!

	Regards,...


- jmpp

PS: I need not say, we can of course use a different, more appropriate  
doctype if a complete redesign is carried out ;)

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