that's exactly why i came here : -) but as you can see - i'm only starting to grasp the entire stardards stuff - that's why all these questions ; )
Ido On 9/20/06, Gunlaug Sørtun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ido Dekkers wrote: > > > one question though - why doesn't xhtml 1.1 serve as text/html ? > > I guess... :-) ...the short answer is that those who wrote the existing > HTML/XHTML standards says so... > <http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/NOTE-xhtml-media-types-20020430/#summary> > ...and standards wouldn't mean much if we don't follow them - at least > when we can. > Misuse of standards by us also makes it less likely that we can trust > browsers to comply with those same standards, and we'll soon be back to > the old days with "anything goes" and "tag soup" again. I personally > think there's more than enough of that stuff around already, and I > prefer a more standardized and reliable base for web documents. > > A bit more in details on the subject here... > <http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq#mime11> > ...and here... > <http://www.webstandards.org/learn/articles/askw3c/sep2003/> > > regards > Georg > -- > http://www.gunlaug.no > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
