- From: Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com>
- Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 11:17:55 -0400
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org, Erik Reppen <erik.reppen@gmail.com>
Le 10 août 2012 à 20:19, Tab Atkins Jr. a écrit : > I don't wish to spend the time to dig up the studies showing that 95% or so of XML served as text/html is invalid XML That doesn't really makes sense, but I guess what Tab meant is People attempting to write documents * with XML syntax rules (such as for example XHTML 1.0), * and serving it as text/html. Often, these documents are NOT well-formed, even before being valid, and even-less conformant. On top of that you can add a layer of madness with user-agent sniffing. I have documented one we had in Opera and forced us to recover automatically. *unfortunately*. It also makes the task of creating a survey very hard because… well you get different markup, redirections, etc. aka results because of the user agent sniffing. See [Wrong To Be Right - application/xhtml+xml][1] [1]: http://my.opera.com/karlcow/blog/2011/03/03/wrong-to-be-right-with-xhtml For stats, there are two big surveys which have been made in the past (maybe it is what Tab refers to) https://developers.google.com/webmasters/state-of-the-web/ http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/mama/ PS: Erik, you can also rely on XHTML5. Aka serving your document as application/xhtml+xml, expect issues with browser market shares in some countries. -- Karl Dubost - http://dev.opera.com/ Developer Relations, Opera Software
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