John Lewis wrote: >Peter wrote on Monday, December 30, 2002 at 11:47:23 AM: > > > >>Which leads me to believe that text/html is correct for XHTML >>documents when used as HTML for web sites. >> >> > >That's true if it's HTML-compatible XHTML 1.0, but not (for example) >XHTML 1.1 or normal XHTML 1.0. The original point was, for those >documents NOT served as text/html, Win IE chokes. The reason is, of >course, that Win IE only supports HTML, not XHTML. It can handle >HTML-compatible XHTML 1.0 *because* it's HTML-compatible. Win IE has >no actual XHTML support--just HTML support. Hopefully a future version >will support XHTML. > > > For an example, try opening the page in my signature. IE will want to save it to disk. An XHTML-compatible browser such as Mozilla will show it fine. It is properly served as application/xhtml+xml since it is XHTML 1.1. -- Brant Langer Gurganus http://troop545.cjb.net/brant.xhtml
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