- From: Steven Pemberton <Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl>
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:01:40 +0200
- To: "XHTML WG" <public-xhtml2@w3.org>
The point of the XHTML Media Types note (http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2010/ED-xhtml-media-types-20100218/) is to explain how to deliver XHTML to a browser. If the browser says it accepts application/xhtml+xml, our job is done: use that media type; you don't have to follow any extra guidelines. However, if it is a legacy browser, and doesn't accept application/xhtml+xml, then there is a fallback: deliver it as text/html (but make sure it won't hiccup on your content by following a number of guidelines). So even if a browser says it accepts both media types, even if it says it 'prefers' text/html (via a q value), our aim is to deliver XHTML, and so should use the application/xhtml+xml media type. Steven
Received on Wednesday, 31 March 2010 13:02:23 UTC