On 7 Mar 2007, at 17:07, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
If you're after the fact that browsers don't sniff for XML in text/ html that's because the old HTML WG said so (there's a pointer somewhere out there) and changing that now is impossible given how many authors got XML as text/html "completely wrong".
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2000Sep/0024.html – that's the post Anne is referring to (I know of no other time that the HTML WG have said anything on this issue).
- Geoffrey Sneddon
