Re: XHTML 1.0 Content-Negotiation

On Aug 19, 2005, at 13:46, Dominique Hazaël-Massieux wrote:

> Depending on the feedback I get, I'll update
> http://www.w3.org/2003/01/xhtml-mimetype/content-negotiation
> accordingly.

I think the first and foremost problem with that document is that it 
fails to establish a practical motivation for serving XHTML 1.0 using 
different Content-Types to different browsers. If the page being served 
only contains XHTML 1.0 and is displayed adequately in IE when served 
as text/html, what is the practical benefit of doing content 
negotiation (or using XHTML for that matter)? If you can demonstrate 
benefits, do they outweigh the disadvantages?

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Henri Sivonen
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http://hsivonen.iki.fi/

Received on Friday, 19 August 2005 12:59:15 UTC