- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 19:26:01 -0500
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > Alexey Feldgendler wrote: > >> While I totally agree that browser sniffing isn't a way to go, I must say >> that Accept headers cannot be used to resolve this because MSIE claims to >> support */* in the Accept header that it sends. > > That's not really true. See: > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2006Nov/0044.html > > and > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2006Nov/0050.html Problem is safari will handle application/xhtml+xml but seems to be sending */* so the claim that we should only send application/xhtml+xml to browsers that explicitly request that type is problematic. -- ?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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