- From: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:23:13 -0400
- To: sroussey@network54.com
- CC: Steven Roussey <sroussey@gmail.com>, public-html@w3.org
On 04/22/2010 06:50 PM, Steven Roussey wrote: >> Did some digging, and found: >> >> http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/detail?id=2548 >> http://code.google.com/p/fbug/source/detail?r=6496 > > Yes, that is me. > > Firebug has less access to Gecko internals than one would expect, so > we often use heuristics. Technically it scans the doctype for xhtml > and then tries to determine if the document is in html of xhtml mode. > If the doctype specifies xhtml and the browser is saying it is not, > then I red flag it. The only way I know for Gecko to enter xhtml mode > is through the server's http content-type header. > > But looking at: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/NOTE-xhtml-media-types-20020801/#text-html > > shows that I am in error in how I handle that. I'll have to ignore > what mode the browser is actually in, and look at the doctype when > possible. I may issue on tooltip warning that just because it is an > xhtml document, doesn't mean that it can do things like mathml or svg. > > Thanks for the correction. > > http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/detail?id=3030 It's a bit more complicated than that, but we are getting off topic, so I've commented on your bug: http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/detail?id=3030#c2 > -steve-- - Sam Ruby
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