- From: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:18:05 +0000
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Stephane Corlosquet <scorlosquet@gmail.com>, RDFa mailing list <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 18:40 +0100, Julian Reschke wrote: > Which of course is caused by the fact that you simply can't serve > XHTML as text/html. The media type is authoritative, so recipients > will treat it as HTML. I think this is something that is often overstated. RFC 2854 notes that "different versions [of HTML] are distinguishable by the DOCTYPE declaration contained within them", so -- assuming that XHTML is a "version" of HTML, whatever that means -- it is not incorrect behaviour to detect an XHTML DOCTYPE and perform version-specific parsing on the content. I realise that many popular user agents (especially desktop browsers) do not do this, but that doesn't make it wrong to do so. -- Toby A Inkster <mailto:mail@tobyinkster.co.uk> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
Received on Monday, 26 October 2009 23:18:53 UTC