RE: XHTML 1.0 versus HTML 4.01

> Jim Ley

> XHTML has strict conformance requirements (as part of the XML 
> requirements) 
> that prevent conformant browsers from rendering XHTML as if it were 
> tag-soup

However, IE6 is *NOT* conformant.

> IE7 must not treat XML vocabularies as tag soup, that would 
> be a very bad 
> thing for XHTML.

I'm not talking about IE7, I'm talking about a quick, short-term kludge
to get IE6 not to unceremoniously ask the user what it should do when
it's served application/xhtml+xml...

Patrick
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Patrick H. Lauke
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http://www.salford.ac.uk

Received on Monday, 9 May 2005 08:21:29 UTC