- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 05:12:44 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Cc: "www-html@w3.org" <www-html@w3.org>
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > 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? It says it in the same place where it says that it is illegal to send XHTML1.1 as image/png. > 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. The changes section is non-normative. Also, text/html's RFC [1] only says "In addition, [XHTML1] defines a profile of use of XHTML which is compatible with HTML 4.01 and which may also be labeled as text/html", which references to a profile of XHTML 1.0, not 1.1, which, in addition, bans internal subsets [2]. [1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2854 [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/ section 3.1.1 items 1 and 5. -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL "meow" /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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