On Thursday 2006-10-26 00:42 -0400, Mark Baker wrote: > FWIW, I spearheaded the creation of an XHTML media type in large part > because I was concerned that without one, HTML UAs would find > themselves having to deal with XML/XHTML "isms" in their HTML code > path. If Ian's correct about how browsers work today - which I assume > he is - it seems that they decided to tackle those issues anyhow. Well, it's not exactly that there was anything to tackle. HTML parsers have been pretty error-tolerant for a long time, since there are lots of errors in HTML on the Web. Error handling was already consistent-enough across browsers on at least most of the errors caused by sending XML as text/html. So the browsers mostly haven't changed to handle XML sent as text/html. They just use the same error correction that they've been using for years, although perhaps with a few tweaks so that the particular types of errors caused by sending XML are handled more consistently between browsers. -David -- L. David Baron <URL: http://dbaron.org/ > Technical Lead, Layout & CSS, Mozilla CorporationReceived on Thursday, 26 October 2006 05:41:25 GMT
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