On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:32:19 +0200, Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Steven Pemberton wrote:
So I can send XHTML5 as text/html if I want.
No, you can't. If you send a document as text/html, then _by definition_
it is an HTML5 document, not an XHTML5 document. There is no other way to
distinguish them than the MIME type.
I very much disagree. It's my document, I get to say what it is. I
regularly send other types of documents to browsers, for instance
XHTML+XForms, XHTML+SVG, and I send them as text/html because that is
unfortunately the only interoperable way to get them into browsers. You
might say that it is a cowpath I am forced to take.
Thanks to plugins, javascript, and similar techniques, the documents do
what I require of them. When I say "text/html" I don't mean "here comes an
HTML document", I mean "I want this in the browser".
Best wishes,
Steven
