- From: Patrick Lauke <P.H.Lauke@salford.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 09:16:18 +0100
- To: <public-evangelist@w3.org>
> Jim Ley > indeed I cannot think of a user agent that > supports XHTML > 1.0 that does not also support XHTML 1.1. How about Internet Explorer? XHTML 1.1 *should not* be sent with a text/html mime type. http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/#summary If you send it as application/xhtml+xml IE prompts you to download the page or open it in another program. If you send XHTML 1.1 as text/html nonetheless (via content negotiation on the server, sending text/html when browsers don't support application/xhtmlxml), you're effectively going against the spec, and should really be sending compatible XHTML 1.0 or even HTML 4.01. Also...the strength of XHTML lies in the ability it gives developer to mix other technologies (such as MathML) into the same document and to do things like extending the spec with your own DTDs. This type of support is, from what I remember, still quite flaky even in other browsers, not just IE. Patrick ________________________________ Patrick H. Lauke Webmaster / University of Salford http://www.salford.ac.uk
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