- From: Masayasu Ishikawa <mimasa@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 03:37:23 +0900 (JST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
William F Hammond <hammond@csc.albany.edu> wrote: > It states that the definition of the type "text/html" is to be found > in W3C recommendations. (RFC 3236 simply registers the type > "application/xhtml+xml".) Do current W3C recommendations cover the > mime field well? HTML4 defines what can be sent as the media type "text/html". XHTML 1.0 defines an exceptional condition, the only exception. No later XHTML specifications would change this situation. > Furthermore, W3C could at some point take the position that > "text/html" may be used for XHTML under conditions that extend the > condition cited in RFC 2854. Probably W3C would cease to exist before taking such a position. Regards, -- Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
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