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> The DOCTYPE line in the source mentioning "HTML 3.2" lets us date this to 1997 I guess, as HTML 3.2 was released in January 1997 and HTML 4 in December 1997.
by twic 6y ago
> The DOCTYPE line in the source mentioning "HTML 3.2" lets us date this to 1997 I guess, as HTML 3.2 was released in January 1997 and HTML 4 in December 1997.
Not necessarily. HTML 4 was a big change from 3.2, more complicated, and stricter about separating structure from presentation. Lots of people stayed with the more familiar 3.2 for a long time.
- masklinn 6y ago> Lots of people stayed with the more familiar 3.2 for a long time. In fact recently I was wondering why markupsafe generates numeric entities for the quote characters. That was added to Jinja (before markupsafe was moved out), for HTML 3.2 compatibility, because 3.2 only had 3 named entities (amp, gt, and lt). According to jinja’s log, this was fixed in 2008. Sadly no link to anything was recorded, but it means either mitsuhiko was feeling playful (and happened to remember this issue) or someone was generating HTML 3.2, with jinja, in 2008.