- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:21:13 -0500
Michel Fortin wrote: > What is really important is that authors understand better that HTML > must be served as text/html and that XHTML must be served with an xml > media type. If the validator enforce that, then I think it'll be > sufficient. That's only plausible if 1. All browsers that accept XHTML served as text/html accept XHTML served as application/xhtml+xml. 2. Document authors can control the MIME types their documents are served with. Neither is true today. Neither is likely to be true within the next couple of years, probably longer. They should be true by all means, but they aren't. Given that fact of the installed base, I cannot accept that it is wrong to serve XHTML as text/html, and I'm afraid any effort that depends critically on that happening is doomed. -- ?Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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