Thanks Susan, i spent a while trawling through old posts to find the thread , but found it instructive, The article Serving XHTML 1.0 (http://www.w3.org/International/articles/serving-xhtml/) helped clarify the subject for me.
with regards Steven Faulkner Web Accessibility Consultant National Information & Library Service (NILS) 454 Glenferrie Road Kooyong Victoria 3144 Phone: (613) 9864 9281 Fax: (613) 9864 9210 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] National Information Library Service A subsidiary of RBS.RVIB.VAF Ltd. "Susan R. Grossman" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <susan.rgrossman@ cc: gmail.com> Subject: Re: [WSG] discussion at juicy studio: It's all in the MIME Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] group.org 11/11/2004 09:57 AM Please respond to wsg On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:23:43 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't agree > with people encouraging content developers to deliver XHTML as text/html. " > > I wondered what other memebrs on the list thought about it and its > implications? The problem from my point is the lack of support by IE and the hoops to jump through to serve otherwise, so I will continue using xhtml 1.0 strict served as text/html. There was a discussion of this on the list in early October , I believe the heading was "is XHTML Dangerous" that if you haven't read, you'd probably find interesting. -- Susan R. Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************