NSK wrote:
The XHTML above is generated by Wikipedia, but in my opinion MW should use only " and not ' i.e. it should be class="external" instead of 'external'
"Should be"? Says who, the Indentation Police?
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 11:19 -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
Both quote forms are equally legal and produce equivalent results, so source code readability tends to outweigh the minor issue of aesthetic consistency in the markup output. Markup output is already butt-ugly because it's not spaced or indented nicely, and nobody's going to look at it very often; it's for consumption of the browser while the source code is maintained by human programmers.
Exactly. For patients who care more than their browsers do about irrelevant inconsistencies in XHTML, I suggest a course of HTML Tidy: http://tidy.sourceforge.net/