- From: Marcos Caceres <marcosscaceres@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:53:47 +0000
- To: laurens@grauw.nl
- Cc: "Jonas Sicking" <jonas@sicking.cc>, "Simon Pieters" <simonp@opera.com>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
2008/12/10 Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>: > Marcos Caceres schreef: >> >> Seems that there is still too much incompatibility to suggest >> "application/xml" support across Widget user agents. I think we should >> just stick with text/html. If authors want to use "application/xml", >> then they can use <content src="somefile" type="application/xml" /> >> and hope for the best :) > > XHTML is a W3C standard that's been Recommended status for many years and > has plenty of implementations (except for Internet Explorer, at this time). > This should be more than enough to warrant inclusion in the list of MIME > type mappings. > > I'm against using the application/xml type for XHTML by the way. A more > specific MIME type is available and it has its use in certain occasions > (e.g. for content negotiation, to determine whether the UA is requesting a > human-readable XHTML version or a site-specific machine-readable XML > version). XML is a transmission format that a lot of different formats make > use of, however each format using XML is still a format on its own and > should have its own MIME type. E.g. application/xhtml+xml should not be > confused with application/rdf+xml, even though both could be served as > application/xml. > The content element is defined here: http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets/#the-content I'm not sure if any widget engines support application/xhtml+xml. I think just adding it because it's a rec is not a valid argument. As Hixie argued, it may be supported by some UA's but it's not well understood by developers [1]. Implementation of HTML5 is well underway in many browsers, which supersedes XHTML in lots of ways. I think just mandating support for text/html is sufficient for widgets. Adding application/xhtml+xml just adds more baggage to widgets and no implementer has requested its support. However, if implementers request it, then we will consider adding it. Kind regards, Marcos [1] http://hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml. -- Marcos Caceres http://datadriven.com.au
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