- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:02:10 +0000
Julian Reschke wrote: > Where did the IETF suggest that...? Pointer appreciated. Well, W3C and IETF. It's in the IANA registration for text/html (RFC 2854). Strictly speaking it's informational. "Due to the long and distributed development of HTML, current practice on the Internet includes a wide variety of HTML variants. Implementors of text/html interpreters must be prepared to be "bug-compatible" with popular browsers in order to work with many HTML documents available the Internet." http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2854.txt Typical browsers can mangle XHTML 1.0 as text/html only because of a bug in their HTML handling of null end tags which causes them to understand <br /> as <br>, rather than <br>> . -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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