- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:09:32 +0100
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:14:04 +0100, Elliotte Harold <elharo at metalab.unc.edu> wrote: >> This seems worse than >> http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/03/19/dive-into-xml.html which was >> written long ago. However, that article also has some flaws in not >> taking into account q values properly. Subsequent articles appeared on >> the web that have addressed this problem. The solution from your >> article might give trouble for search engines, for instance. > > How so? Well, your article advocates sniffing specific user agents where the one written by Mark Pilgrim uses the Accept: header which was actually designed for this... Google, for one, is known for not supporting XHTML really well. >> Then of course there are some interoperability issues with XHTML and >> entities that haven't really been sorted out yet... > > Such as? Well, since browsers have non-validating XML parsers you actually can't use entities, but then you can because they have some build in knowledge for certain DOCTYPEs... However, this is not guaranteed to be cross browser. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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