Hi there,
I have a question regarding mime types and microformat parsing, an
area i find thoroughly confusing because of the differences in opinion
on the web. I just read an article [1] that goes on about serving XHTML
as text/html and why it's bad. It seems fair enough but I see it all
over the place even on websites of experts like ppk, tantek's site,
wordpress blogs etc... so I do it myself. The article suggests that
XHTML doctype or no if it's served as text/html then it's treated as
HTML. Secondly the wiki definition states they must be in (x)HTML/XML
documents. If (x)HTML documents when served as text/html are treated as
HTML how are the microformats still working? Does this mean microformats
will work under an HTML 4.01 doctype?
I might have the wrong end of the stick if the mime type only relates to
browser rendering and compatibility... like I said I'm confused.
[1] http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml
Cheers,
Rob
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