> Gee Rimantas, > > Such enlightenment! Oh, well, OK.
According to [1] XHTML1.1 should not be sent with MIME type of text/html. Some may argue that "should not" is not the same as "must not" and need to serve IE justifies the use of "text/html" MIME type for XHTML1.1, but I belong to "XHTML as text/html is meaningless" camp. In case of application/xhtml+xml MIME type meta element makes no sense at all, because it is not used for anything - neither for mime type (which is never used for, be it html or xhtml), nor for character encoding information [2]. HTTP headers and XML declaration are used for this purpose. As for omitting mime type from meta element and leaving only charset info... This might work only in text/html context, in which such omission makes no sense. On the other hand charset info is optional in Content-type HTTP header, not the content type part itself ;) And you were right that was Lachlan who wrote about Content-type headers and meta element, see [3]. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/ [2] http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/faq.html#xhtmldiff [2] http://lachy.id.au/log/2006/01/content-type 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 ******************************************************
