Denver Braughler wrote:

>Peter Cooper wrote:
>> Well what more can ISC do to develop CSP - HTML is a very simple
>> concept and I think they have gone as far as they can 

>For one thing, they could upgrade to strict XHTML.

AFAIK, the CSP engine is perfectly capable of sending XHTML (do you
know of any problems?), but doing so has unfortunate side-effects at
the moment. XHTML, according to the standard, has to be sent as mime
type application/xhtml+xml, but Internet Explorer does not recognize
this mime type, and when it sees it, it merely shows an XML document
tree. The XHTML 1.0 compatibility mode (AKA appendix C) allows sending
XHTML at mime type text/html (and doing this makes IE recognize it as
HTML), but there are numerous problems with this; see e.g.:

http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml

Personally, I wouldn't like to see the CSP engine switch its default
mode to XHTML until a version of IE that supports it properly has been
out there for quite a while, but it would be nice if the default
content-type were configurable on an application basis.

Gertjan.

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Gertjan Klein

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