Updating HTML specs on Explain HTML

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Updating HTML specs on Explain HTML

Opened this issue 7 years ago · 2 comments

Decisions for the firebellies.newtfire.org server and teaching students on NewtFire

Serve xhtml as .html
no XML line (this seems to be problematic for serving UTF-8, is not common practice, and seems unnecessary.)
In oXygen 19, opening an 'HTML' file seems sufficient, providing the xhtml namespace designation. This is XHTML to be saved as .html.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
        <title></title>
    </head>
    <body></body>
</html

Answer 1 · 2017-09-21T03:19:34.000Z

Provide a default "Hello, world!" index page for new student users, with basic NewtFire-approved server specs, and update Explain HTML page accordingly.
Investigate meta tags, especially for responsive design (viewport): See https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_meta.asp
https://www.sitepoint.com/meta-tags-html-basics-best-practices/

Answer 2 · 2017-09-21T03:35:11.000Z

Try this as a new default NewtFire page with simple, up-to-date and responsive <meta> tags:

   <!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
        <title>My NewtFire Homepage</title>
        <meta charset="UTF-8" />
        <meta name="author" content="Your Name" />
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>Hello, world!</h1>
        <p>Welcome to my site.</p>
    </body>
</html>