Re: please reivew mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:20:57 +0200, Sean Owen <srowen@google.com> wrote:
> The alternative is to, I suppose, define HTML Basic, which seems
> unnecessary. As you note, many browsers are just parsing XHTML (Basic)
> as HTML anyway.

The specific problem here is that you advocate people to use 1) XHTML  
Basic and 2) use the application/xhtml+xml MIME type and 3) indicate that  
parsing this as HTML is ok.

If pages are actually being authored against a browser which uses an HTML  
parser for application/xhtml+xml this will might break those pages in  
browsers that correctly use an XML parser for application/xhtml+xml such  
as Firefox, Opera and Safari. I suppose advocating that people use the  
text/html MIME type is fine. Saying they should use application/xhtml+xml  
is not given the broken mobile browsers out there as it will likely result  
in more divergence between desktop and mobile browsers.


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Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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Received on Wednesday, 13 June 2007 14:11:44 UTC