- From: Alan Dean <alan.dean@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 09:41:27 +0100
- To: public-html@w3.org
- Cc: Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com
Chris, Re: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Apr/0612.html I can understand why the IE team is loath to take actions that 'break the web' in terms of backwards compatibility, quirks mode, etc. My question is this: 1) IE7 will not render an xhtml document presented as application/xhtml+xml. 2) There is, therefore, nothing to break (it already doesn't work). 3) Given 1 and 2 above, is it feasible to support a 'clean' html[5] when presented as application/xhtml+xml and preserve backwards compatibility when presented with text/html? There may be a very good reason why this is not feasible, of course, but (to me) it has a feeling of some elegance. See also: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/09/15/467901.aspx http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/#media-types Regards, Alan Dean http://thoughtpad.net/alan-dean
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