[Solar-talk] html?

[mikko at sorl.net]

The main reason for me not to use xhtml is because IE cannot
understand application/xhtml+xml and serving it as text/html has
numerous problems mentioned in the article and on many other places.

/Mikko

On 1/9/07, Paul M Jones <pmjones at ciaweb.net> wrote:
> Hi Mikko,
>
> > I am just curious why xhtml was choosen as the only option for the
> > view helpers. I prefer html, others may or may not.
>
> We're trying to be standards-compliant and future-compatible as much
> as we can ... and the future appears to be XHTML.  That's all the
> thinking I've done on it; did you have specific reasons for
> preferring HTML4?
>
>
> > There is an interesting article written by Ian Hickson regarding
> > the issue here:
> >
> > http://hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml
>
> I've seen this very good article many times before; thanks for
> linking it here.  Was there a section in particular that you wanted
> to note, or was this just to make sure we were aware of it?
>
> The "application/xhtml+xml" mime type is of special importance, and
> I'm toying with the idea of adding it as a header() in the default
> Solar layout files.
>
>
>
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