I've experienced this when I've exported LO's LICENSE document to HTML (from read-only mode). The encoding was: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> It's very old technology and export to something like this isn't a right way. I think we should switch to HTML5 and add ability to select XHTML optionally. The current problem is that there's no clear way to save/export document to HTML. We have: * save dialog - olde HTML4 Transitional as one and only option to save docs in HTML * export dialog - XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 in exporting What is the difference between them? LO can edit HTML5 docs with no problems. My proposal: * make HTML5 save format instead of HTML4 Transitional * stop offer to save in HTML4 Transitional * remove HTML entry from export dialog, HTML could be edited in LO Writer, unlike PDF * make two entries (split current option) in save dialog: HTML5 (.html) and XHTML (.html)
(In reply to Rezonansowy from comment #0) > I've experienced this when I've exported LO's LICENSE document to HTML (from > read-only mode). The encoding was: > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> > > It's very old technology and export to something like this isn't a right > way. I think we should switch to HTML5 and add ability to select XHTML > optionally. (Marking as Enhancement) > > The current problem is that there's no clear way to save/export document to > HTML. > We have: > * save dialog - olde HTML4 Transitional as one and only option to save docs > in HTML > * export dialog - XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 in exporting > > What is the difference between them? Well they're different export mechanisms. I think the HTML4 ("html") export is a bit older addition to the codebase. > LO can edit HTML5 docs with no problems. > > My proposal: > * make HTML5 save format instead of HTML4 Transitional > * stop offer to save in HTML4 Transitional > * remove HTML entry from export dialog, HTML could be edited in LO Writer, > unlike PDF > * make two entries (split current option) in save dialog: HTML5 (.html) and > XHTML (.html) This seems mostly reasonable. IIRC, stuff in the Save(-As) dialog are mostly editable formats, and stuff in the Export dialog are more read-only formats; I'm not sure the precise thinking about HTML in the Save dialog :-) The one question I have is: Would we lose support with older browsers if we moved export to a newer version of HTML? Status -> NEW
(In reply to Robinson Tryon (qubit) from comment #1) > The one question I have is: Would we lose support with older browsers if we > moved export to a newer version of HTML? Rather no, most HTML common tags are same, and the specific others, like <section> or <article> are purely semantic and safely ignored in older browser. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5#Error_handling
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