- From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 20:51:53 +0200
> XHTML work perfectly with all browsers (Internet Explorer included). > The problem just come from the support of the content-type > application/xhtml+xml send in the HTTP Header. Internet Explorer > don't support it. And you needs that MIME type. <http://annevankesteren.nl/archives/2004/06/invalid-html> > W3C recommandation is to use application/xhtml+xml for serving XHTML > 1.0 but you can use text/html if you want. the obligation of serving > XHTML with application/xml+xhtml appeared only in the 1.1 version of > XHTML. Since when does the W3C say anything authorative about MIME types? I would rather trust the IETF, who say you have to use a XML MIME type. > So actually you can use XHTML instead of HTML and it works very well > for all my websites. Internet Explorer is more preoccupated by my CSS > than by my XHTML :) In that case you would use invalid HTML, not XHTML. > Remember that XHTML is just an XMLization of HTML. Remember that XML has well-formdness rules were HTML has not and that those rules are heavily complicated and apply to XHTML as well. <http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/07/06/tough> -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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