Designer wrote:
Lachlan Hunt wrote:
Designer wrote:
Incidentally, I would be interested in any browsers you know which won't
support application/xhtml+xml, apart from IE of course.
http://www.w3.org/People/mimasa/test/xhtml/media-types/results
Thanks, Lachlan. I studied the list, and the only failing browsers I saw were
Opera prior to v7.10 (in some versions the type selector in style sheets matched
case-insensitively) Amaya (well surely Amaya users are the type to upgrade to
later versions, which are OK) and iCAB, the latter's only problem being the
style sheet case mentioned above.
So, as far as I can see, if you have all your style sheets in lower case, the
only problem is IE. If so, the selective feeding to IE should be fine. Does
anyone know why this wouldn't be the case? If not, is this a new 'hack'?
No, because of the case sensitivity bug several browsers have
(especially iCab) and the other reasons I mentioned before regarding
browser Accept headers which would result in those browsers receiving
HTML, not XHTML, and that would include users that have modified their
browser's Accept header. A browser's Accept header and its support for
XHTML cannot be used as an indication of its CSS abilities.
In Firefox, this can be set with the pref network.http.accept.default
and some users may have modified it to prefer HTML because of its
inability to incrementally render XHTML.
iCab's accept header by default contains this:
text/html;q=0.9,application/xhtml+xml;q=0.7
Safari's accept header contains just */*. If you were using Apache
Multiviews (which selects files based on the file extension and chooses
the files alphabetically in the event that checking all other criteria
didn't result in a single preference) then the .html file would be
chosen over the .xhtml file. Simply changing the file extensions to put
the XHTML file alphabetically before HTML is not an option because then
IE users would also receive the XHTML file.
Also keep in mind that that list is not a complete list of every
browser, there may be others that don't support XHTML, do support
stylesheets and are still in use by some people.
--
Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/
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