- From: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:04:27 -0500
- To: Steven Pemberton <Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl>
- CC: XHTML WG <public-xhtml2@w3.org>
What if the q value for application/xhtml+xml is 0? Steven Pemberton wrote: > 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 -- Shane P. McCarron Phone: +1 763 786-8160 x120 Managing Director Fax: +1 763 786-8180 ApTest Minnesota Inet: shane@aptest.com
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