Philipp von Weitershausen schrieb:
Tonico Strasser wrote:
Philipp von Weitershausen schrieb:
Tonico Strasser wrote:
Philipp von Weitershausen schrieb:
If we make XML the default mode, I don't see how it would impact IE
very
much.
IE would try to dowload HTML pages not served as text/html. Pages in XML
mode should be served as XML not text/html.
I think that last sentence is a bit strong and IMO even plain wrong.
ZPT's mode of operation has nothing to do with how it's served in an
HTTP response.
I thougth this is part of the XML spec. No?
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/07/21/dive.html
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3023.txt
The RFC you cite here introduces five (!) new media types for XML, two
of which are text/xml and application/xml. So that's already ambiguous.
Apart from that, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3236.txt introduces
application/xhtml+xml, also a valid XML content type, for XHTML in
particular (of course, I bet that IE won't accept it so pragmatism wins
over RFC-compliance here and we have to stick with text/html). As for
other XML dialects, there are even content types that aren't text/* or
applicaton/* and still deal with XML, e.g. image/svg+xml for SVG
(http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-SVG12-20041027/mimereg.html).
The point of all this is that text/xml just isn't enough. It's a good
fallback, but it's not enough, especially including serving HTML. From
that I conclude that the "should" in your sentence above is wrong.
And to which media type should ZPTs in XML mode default to?
Tonico
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