RE: Cleaning House

Maciej Stachowiak [mailto:mjs@apple.com] wrote:
>Shane McCarron wrote:
>> Yes, please!!!  Absolutely have IE refuse to process the page if a
>> document that claims to be XHTML (anything) is not well formed.
>
>All browser implementations that I know of already do this for non-
>well-formed XHTML, as identified by the MIME type.

You mean desktop browsers, but yes, I thought they did - I thought I'd missed some announcement or something.

>IE will
>additionally refuse to process documents that claim to be XHTML and
>are well-formed.

*snork*  Come on, man, not while I'm eating lunch.

>However, it is the case that many mobile browsers
>process XHTML as tag soup, due to a lot of mobile walled-garden
>content being marked as XHTML Basic when it is not well-formed XML.

This is true, of course.

Received on Thursday, 3 May 2007 20:14:09 UTC