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branch master updated: No HTML features list, explain how HTML evolves |
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Wed, 20 Jul 2022 09:14:47 -0400 |
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new 41fc765858 No HTML features list, explain how HTML evolves
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commit 41fc765858b32d4c5d0b7c73f230b8542c5853f5
Author: Patrice Dumas <pertusus@free.fr>
AuthorDate: Wed Jul 20 15:14:34 2022 +0200
No HTML features list, explain how HTML evolves
* doc/texinfo.texi (HTML Translation): do not list explicitly
HTML features used, but rather explain how makeinfo implements
latest standard features while trying to be backward compatible
as best as possible too.
---
ChangeLog | 9 +++++++++
doc/texinfo.texi | 49 +++++++++----------------------------------------
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index caa2eee8ba..05ddf8a79e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2022-20-07 Patrice Dumas <pertusus@free.fr>
+
+ No HTML features list, explain how HTML evolves
+
+ * doc/texinfo.texi (HTML Translation): do not list explicitly
+ HTML features used, but rather explain how makeinfo implements
+ latest standard features while trying to be backward compatible
+ as best as possible too.
+
2022-20-07 Patrice Dumas <pertusus@free.fr>
* doc/texinfo.texi (@code{@@setfilename}): state clearly that
diff --git a/doc/texinfo.texi b/doc/texinfo.texi
index 409f6be6bd..065449aa61 100644
--- a/doc/texinfo.texi
+++ b/doc/texinfo.texi
@@ -18133,55 +18133,24 @@ to the output (i.e., suppressing the normal escaping
of input
@samp{<}, @samp{>} and @samp{&} characters which have special
significance in HTML)@. @xref{Conditional Commands}.
+@cindex HTML output, browser compatibility of
@strong{Standards}:
-It is intentionally not our goal, and not even possible, to pass
+It is intentionally not our goal, and not even always possible, to pass
through every conceivable validation test without any diagnostics.
Different validation tests have different goals, often about pedantic
enforcement of some standard or another. Our overriding goal is to
help users, not blindly comply with standards.
Please report output from an
-error-free run of @code{makeinfo} which has @emph{practical} browser
+error-free run of @command{makeinfo} which has @emph{practical} browser
portability problems as a bug (@pxref{Reporting Bugs}).
-@cindex HTML output, browser compatibility of
-Some known use of features by HTML version:
-
-@itemize
-@item
-The HTML@tie{}4 @samp{id} attribute is used.
-
-@item
-The HTML@tie{}4 @samp{lang} attribute on the @samp{<html>} attribute
-is used.
-
-@item
-Some HTML@tie{}4 elements are used: @code{span}, @code{thead},
-@code{abbr}, @code{acronym}.
-
-@item
-CSS is used
-
-@item
-Entities that are not in the HTML@tie{}3.2 standard are also used.
-
-@item
-HTML@tie{}3.2 tables are generated for the @code{@@multitable} command
-(@pxref{Multi-column Tables})
-@c but they should degrade reasonably in browsers without table support.
-@end itemize
-
-@ignore
-@pindex html32.pm
-(using
-@samp{--init-file=html32.pm} produced strict HTML@tie{}3.2 output, but
-this has not been tested lately;
-@pxref{Invoking @command{texi2any}}):
-@end ignore
-
-
-
-
+In practice, the HTML produced by @command{makeinfo} is slowly adjusted
+over time towards the latest HTML standard, while also trying to keep
+compatibility with earlier produced HTML. We use transitional markup
+and try to be slow enough to give time for the diverse HTML readers
+to adjust (and for standards to reincorporate useful features that were
+dropped@dots{}).
@node HTML Splitting
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