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Weekly Perl 6 mailing list summary

Posted Sep 21, 2006 19:48 UTC (Thu) by nicku (subscriber, #777) [Link]

the CGI.pm in Perl 6

Darren Duncan made the suggestion that CGI.pm be improved for Perl 6 rather than simply ported. He listed a few ways in which it could be improved. Mark Stosberg replied and mentioned some of the points he considered most important. These suggestions in particular received further discussion: removing HTML generation methods,

Many people do not realise that XHTML is not even recognised as anything more than tag soup by most web browsers, and will continue to be so for the forseable future, particularly thanks to Microsoft's abandonment of Internet Explorer, which is not slated to accept application/xhtml+xml until possibly as late as version 8.

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Silly me

Posted Sep 21, 2006 20:12 UTC (Thu) by nicku (subscriber, #777) [Link]

:-) Err, now that I've read the post, I understand that they were talking about removing generation of (x)html, not generating xhtml instead of html. Sorry about that.