> From:Of Alan Milnes > > > > Ian Hickson is _not_ saying XHTML is harmful, he is saying that > > > serving up XHTML with the wrong MIME type is bad. > > I've read the article and what I don't understand is that if it is so > bad why is it acceptable to the Validator? > > I write my pages in XHTML with a XHTML 1.1 doctype and send the content > type as text/html. That's how I was taught (doesn't make it right I > know) and it validates. > > I've tried several methods of sending different headers depending on the > browser but have yet to find one that works properly. > > Alan > http://www.gameplan.org.uk
Actually that's a good point. Most people who are trying to manage this are using TCN (Transparent Content Negotiation), or similar technology set, on the server side to serve documents according to the user agent capacity. ----- Geoff ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
