Re: [whatwg] text/html for html and xhtml (Was: Supporting MathML and SVG in text/html, and related topics)

2008-04-17 Thread liorean
On 17/04/2008, William F Hammond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Previously: Yes, but the point is, once a user agent begins to sniff, there's no rational excuse for it not to recognize compliant xhtml+(mathml|svg). Yes there is. Live content rely on even perfectly well formed XHTML to have the

Re: [whatwg] text/html for html and xhtml (Was: Supporting MathML and SVG in text/html, and related topics)

2008-04-16 Thread Boris Zbarsky
William F Hammond wrote: The experiment begun around 2001 of punishing bad documents in application/xhtml+xml seems to have led to that mime type not being much used. That has more to do with the fact that it wasn't supported in browsers used by 90+% of users for a number of years. So user