[Solar-talk] html?

[mikko at sorl.net]

The work around works, sure but:

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq#browsers
"Although you are serving the document as XML, and it gets parsed as
XML, the browser thinks it has received text/html, and so your XHTML
1.0 document must follow many of the guidelines for serving to legacy
browsers."

And there are many problems related to this here:
http://hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml

BTW I am not saying html is preferrable over xhtml, I am just saying
xhtml might not be the one single road.

/Mikko



On 1/9/07, Paul M Jones <pmjones at ciaweb.net> wrote:
>
> On Jan 8, 2007, at 5:18 PM, Paul M Jones wrote:
>
> > On Jan 8, 2007, at 5:16 PM, mikko at sorl.net wrote:
> >
> >> The main reason for me not to use xhtml is because IE cannot
> >> understand application/xhtml+xml
> >
> > Really?!?  I was completely unaware of that.  Can you provide links
> > describing the effects?
>
> Replying to myself here.  Yes, apparently MSIE presents the user with
> a "download" dialog when application/xhtml+xml is the MIME type:
>
>    <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticisms_of_Internet_Explorer#XHTML>
>
> It appears there is a hackish workaround:
>
>    <http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq#ie>
>
> Have you tried using that workaround?  If so, can you report on its
> effectiveness?
>
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