Re: HTML5 and XML syntax

Oops, mistakenly sent this to public-html instead of
public-html-comments at first...

> Simon Pieters skrev:
> > Consider that you make a site for a client, in XHTML, but served as
> > text/html to IE. You use a popular CMS so that the client can update the
> > site himself. The site validates and all is nice and dandy, a work well
> > done.
> >
> > Now 6 months later the client updates the front page on his site and
> > forgets to escape an ampersand. The client doesn't notice because he
> > uses IE. Suddenly the client is locking out customers without knowing
> > about it.

On 28/01/2008, temp17@staldal.nu <temp17@staldal.nu> wrote:
> This implies that there is a browser in use which
>
> a) Refuse to display illformed XHTML when served as text/html

Not at all. The document was specifically served as text/html to ie,
implying that other browsers got application/xhtml+xml.

> AND
> b) Correctly display HTML with incorrect character entities
> Which browser is that?

Tell me which browser doesn't support unescaped ampersands in HREF and
SRC attributes for text/html content? It's one of the most common
XHTML coding errors around. It gets ignored in HTML mode, but YSoD in
XML mode.
--
David "liorean" Andersson

Received on Monday, 28 January 2008 15:35:06 UTC