- From: Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 09:44:24 -0700
- To: Dão Gottwald <dao@design-noir.de>, Alan Dean <alan.dean@gmail.com>
- CC: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Dão Gottwald [mailto:dao@design-noir.de] wrote: >Alan Dean schrieb: >> 1) IE7 will not render an xhtml document presented as >> application/xhtml+xml. >> 2) There is, therefore, nothing to break (it already doesn't work). >> 3) Given 1 and 2 above, is it feasible to support a 'clean' html[5] >> when presented as application/xhtml+xml and preserve backwards >> compatibility when presented with text/html? > >Roughly the same question can be (and was) asked for <!DOCTYPE html>. >(It is supported by IE7, but not used in today's documents.) Ideally, I That's not exactly the same, though it's close. The major difference is that with the different MIME type, IE will do nothing with it at all - pop a "save as" dialog, I think - so it is not possible to use it (unless you configure your server to send it as text/html). You can use <!DOCTYPE html> today - although virtually no one does today. >want IE to have one decent rendering mode for HTML5 and above, >regardless of the mime type. Noted. >If Microsoft supports such a mode before >the significant bugs are fixed and without an opt-in, it'll be just >another quirks mode and we need yet another doctype or mime-type switch. Who defines "significant"? -C
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