2005/12/3, T. R. Valentine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 03/12/05, Christian Montoya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If your server is sending the MIME type text/html, then the META > > doesn't do anything. You need to change the MIME type being sent out > > in the headers, and that is done server side. > > Thanks for that explanation. But what about when simply opening the > .html file in a browser, no server involved? Even there I do not see a > difference in IE between the two forms. >
Why should you? application/xhtml+xml MIME type is not known to IE, so it uses text/html. You may want to check this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/networking/moniker/overview/appendix_a.asp Regards, Rimantas -- http://rimantas.com/ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************