- From: James Tauber SunLabs - SML <James.Tauber@east.sun.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 19:18:31 -0500
- To: www-html@w3.org, CTaylor@wposmtp.nps.navy.mil
> A question, though: I used to think that the <html></html> > tags were there to let the browser software know that > the document was in HTML format. But if that's so, then > why is it defined as a MIME type on the server? The <html>...</html> lets an SGML system know (redundantly) that it's an HTML element. (The <!DOCTYPE HTML ...> lets an SGNK system know it's HTML). The MIME type lets a MIME system know it's HTML. Interestingly, Web browsers are primarily MIME-focused rather than SGML-focused in that they allow a variety of MIME content types but virtually no variation in SGML document type. James
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