Lachlan Hunt wrote:
Try this in IE:
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/wrongWithIE/?chapter=XHTML&withHeader=1
Oops, that's served as application/xhtml+xml, so it won't work.
Here's the same article as text/html:
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/wrongWithIE/?chapter=XHTML
One other thing that doesn't seem to be mentioned in that particular
article is that if you use the <?xml?> declartion (or, in fact,
anything before the DOCTYPE), then it will trigger quirks mode in IE6
and below. IE7 will fix that particular bug, but still won't support
XHTML properly.
Right... rather than jumping to conclusions I was just wanting to make
sure you were telling a beginner at html/css that "IE does not support
XHTML" because of relatively minor things like http headers and xml
declarations.
I'm a bit of a standards nazi, don't get me wrong, but I think you're
misleading Lori. I mean no one goes around saying Firefox doesn't
support HTML and CSS because it doesn't pass the Acid test or implement
soft-hyphens[1]
As a community we shouldn't stop demanding more compatibility, but your
statement doesn't seem measured to me.
[1] http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/shy.html
.Matthew Cruickshank
http://holloway.co.nz/
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