Emit HTML 4.01 instead of HTML5

[Johannes Lichtenberger]

Hello,

is it possible to emit HTML 4.01 instead of HTML5? We currently have the problem that we specify HTML 4.01 in the doctype declaration, whereas it seems that for instance the '+' is encoded as + and the Browser doesn't parse the entity (and I think it's not specified in HTML 4.01). Wouldn't it be possible to use the named entities (+) or switch between HTML versions (which might be impossible due to the heavy changes).

Thank you.

Kind regards
Johannes


[Johannes Lichtenberger]

Am Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 2014 11:40:38 UTC+2 schrieb Johannes Lichtenberger:

is it possible to emit HTML 4.01 instead of HTML5? We currently have the problem that we specify HTML 4.01 in the doctype declaration, whereas it seems that for instance the '+' is encoded as + and the Browser doesn't parse the entity (and I think it's not specified in HTML 4.01). Wouldn't it be possible to use the named entities (+) or switch between HTML versions (which might be impossible due to the heavy changes).


I mean the browser doesn't replace the entity code. However we just switched to HTML5 to test the issue and for instance telephone numbers are still preceded by the entity code + instead of a plus-sign.

[Johannes Lichtenberger]

Ok, just ignore my "issue". It became apparent that another renderer (just doing HTML-encoding did encode the & afterwards into & -- which didn't became apparent in the DOM, inside a textarea- or pre-element).On another note I'm not really sure if we have cases where the combination of both renderers makes sense at all.