| 02:12 | <eachwon> | gonna repeat my question from #html here, belongs here really |
| 02:14 | <eachwon> | the meta "X-UA-Compatible" doesn't validate, it's only for IE as far as i know so can i put it in conditional comments and will it work |
| 02:20 | <Philip`> | eachwon: Since this a standards channel, the correct answer is that you shouldn't use X-UA-Compatible at all - you should just use <!doctype html> and have the same content work in all browsers without any browser-specific hacks |
| 02:21 | <zewt> | not much of a real-world answer :) |
| 02:22 | <Philip`> | Also, you don't have to pass the validator - its goal is to help you improve the quality of your pages, and hiding browser-specific hacks inside browser-specific comments so that the validator can't see them is not improving the quality of your pages |
| 02:22 | <eachwon> | Philip, thanks, great answer because i didn't realise this was non-standard, starting from html5 boilerplate here. Doesn't really solve my problem though :) |
| 02:22 | <eachwon> | was trying the htaccess approach but server doesn't allow headers |
| 02:22 | <zewt> | eachwon: I generally treat validators as lint tools--to help make sure I'm not doing anything nonstandard *intentionally*, but bending over backwards to try to quiet the validator in every case is generally not a useful goal |
| 02:22 | <paul_irish> | eachwon: http://groups.google.com/group/html5boilerplate/browse_thread/thread/6d1b6b152aca8ed2 |
| 02:23 | <zewt> | er, *unintentionally* |
| 02:23 | <zewt> | (always nice to typo an emphasized word in a way that inverts its meaning) |
| 02:24 | <eachwon> | paul_irish : nice ! |
| 02:25 | <paul_irish> | eachwon: so basically yeah.. what zewt said. feel free to use it as a tool, but at the end of the day, what happens in the browser trumps what a validator says |
| 02:25 | <paul_irish> | and i would recommend keeping it in, regardless of the validation result |
| 02:27 | <eachwon> | great, thx for the info guys |
| 02:27 | <paul_irish> | np |
| 09:49 | <annevk> | Hixie, fyi, developers.whatwg.org got *a lot* of traction |
| 09:49 | <annevk> | Hixie, at least on twitter; maybe mainstream media will report on it once there's a "press release"... |
| 17:33 | <espadrine> | Wow, developers.whatwg.org now has search built-in! |
| 21:10 | <Ms2ger> | AryehGregor, please reference DOM Core for definitions of ASCII case-insensitive and collections |
| 22:34 | <Hixie> | annevk: yeah, i spoke to ben about it in /msg |
| 22:34 | <Hixie> | annevk: we can totally get even more once we have a blog post about it, i think |
| 23:35 | <annevk> | Hixie, maybe Web Applications 1.0 needs something similar: https://bitbucket.org/ms2ger/dom-core/changeset/2ecda50e4540 |