Thanks for persuing this, i'm trying to understand, too.
designer wrote:
. . . before I go back to html 2.0!
But seriously, in my continuing quest to understand/get a feeling for mime types
etc, I've made two files now : thearea.html and thearea.xhtml. What I did was
to make the xhtml first, validate it etc, then save as html as well. So the two
files are identical, apart from the extension.
The first file,
http://www.rhh.myzen.co.uk/rhh/thearea/thearea.xhtml
in this one, in mozilla it shows fine, BUT in IE6 i get the "invitation
to download" the file. ;) (with background, too, in mozilla)
is served as application/xhtml+xml, whereas the second,
http://www.rhh.myzen.co.uk/rhh/thearea/thearea.html
in mozilla and IE6 i get it fine, and the background, also, in both
browsers.
is served as text/html. Which is what I wanted. So, apart from the extension,
the files are identical. However, the css behaves differently - the body
background colour is not showing in the xhtml version, but the background image
shows OK . . .
The CSS is simple:
body{
font : 14px/20px Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
color : #333;
background: #e3ffe3 url(../rhhframes/415e3ebkgrnd.jpg) repeat-x fixed left
top;
}
Is this to do with relative and absolute links again, or what?
AND, is there a 'list' of things which happen in 'real' xhtml but not in
text/html? I've tried to search for the answer, but I just get swamped with the
usual differences (backslashes and so on).
cheers
Donna
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