On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 05:25:09PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 3.0~b5-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Iceweasel used to prefer application/xhtml+xml over text/html.  Now, it  
> prefers them equally, and specifies text/html before  
> application/xhtml+xml, which leads to servers such as Apache serving  
> text/html in preference to application/xhtml+xml.
>
> XHTML is a newer standard which supports features such as XML  
> namespaces, embedded SVG, and embedded MathML.  HTML supports none of  
> these.  Additionally, there are sites that have additional features  
> enabled in their XHTML versions, and provide an HTML version to deal  
> with the brokenness that is Internet Explorer.  XHTML is obviously the  
> superior choice.
>
> Please revert this change.
>
> Before:
> text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
> Now:
> text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/8;q=0.8

See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309438 and
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361892 for how it came to
this value. Especially, read the last comments in the first one.

Anyways, I do agree this is broken for the simple case of Apache
Multiviews, and I think they should have reordered in
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361892

Mike



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