Hey Alexey, 2010/1/7 Alexey Proskuryakov <[email protected]>: > > 07.01.2010, в 07:53, Tobias Tom написал(а): > >> My real-life problem here is the following: A resource is available inside >> an (machine-optmized) XML format and in (human optimized) HTML format under >> the same URL. Webkit will always get the XML version. Is there any reason >> for that? > > Historically, this is a result of mimicking what Firefox did at some point.
Thanks for the information. > They don't do that any more, so I think that WebKit should prefer text/html, > too. As of version 3.5, Firefox sends (for main resources): > > Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 > > <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27267> tracks this problem. I fully agree that this would help everyone. Sorry for not researching the issue first. >> I can understand the fact that xhtml should be preferred before html, but >> Webkit itself is not able to render application/xml in a human format anyway >> (no offense here, I think that's really ok). > > Actually, WebKit can render plain XML if it has an appropriate XSL stylesheet > (e.g. one that converts it to HTML, or to SVG). Also, XHTML or SVG can be > sent as application/xml. But anyway, we should probably just mimic Firefox > again. Of course you are right, still for most XML files there's none – but that's another topic. Thank you for your time. Tobias _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
