On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:13:42 +0100, Elliotte Harold
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Indeed, if one were of a suspicious turn of mind, one might think the
insistence on sending XHTML as application/xhtml+xml were nothing but a
strategy to make XHTML so practically inconvenient that no one would
consider it. But I don't have such a suspicious mind, so I'm sure it's
all honest disagreement. :-)
You can just give your files an XML MIME type (.xml extension). That will
work fine in most browsers. "XHTML" also works fine with the text/html
MIME type (.htm extension), but then it won't be parsed as XML by your
typical web browser.
This shouldn't be new information though...
If you're after the fact that browsers don't sniff for XML in text/html
that's because the old HTML WG said so (there's a pointer somewhere out
there) and changing that now is impossible given how many authors got XML
as text/html "completely wrong".
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Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
<http://www.opera.com/>
