- From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 09:38:03 +0100
- To: <public-evangelist@w3.org>
"Patrick Lauke" <P.H.Lauke@salford.ac.uk> >> Jim Ley >> XHTML has strict conformance requirements (as part of the XML >> requirements) >> that prevent conformant browsers from rendering XHTML as if it were >> tag-soup > > However, IE6 is *NOT* conformant. It makes no claims to be an XHTML user agent? It handles the mime-type to specification. >> IE7 must not treat XML vocabularies as tag soup, that would >> be a very bad thing for XHTML. > > I'm not talking about IE7, I'm talking about a quick, short-term kludge > to get IE6 not to unceremoniously ask the user what it should do when > it's served application/xhtml+xml... well, that's easy, just configure your platform to handle application/xhtml+xml with an appropriate program? IE6 is not an appropriate program. In Windows 2000 - Windows Explorer - tools - folder options - file types, invent an extension, then set the mime-type to application/xhtml+xml, pick an appropriate program. Jim.
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