- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 23:45:59 -0500
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: "www-html@w3.org" <www-html@w3.org>
At 3:43 AM +0000 12/9/02, Ian Hickson wrote: >In any case, it is illegal to send XHTML 1.1 as text/html, so the whole >excercise is pointless as no legacy browser would be able to render the >page in the first place. Where exactly does it say that? I didn't notice anything in the XHTML 1.1 specs about the proper MIME media type, and this was not a listed change from 1.0, which does explicitly allow text/html, but I could easily have missed something. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly, 2002) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0596002920/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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