- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:01:20 -0500
- To: "Grosso, Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com>
- Cc: public-xml-core-wg <public-xml-core-wg@w3.org>
Grosso, Paul scripsit:
> The HTML WG proposes to change things by allowing XHTML 1.1 to be
> served as text/html.
I very much support this, and I don't think the disadvantages are really
disadvantageous.
> * previously, one could guarantee that XHTML
> would be processed as XML, have an XML DOM, reliable and
> browser-independent parsing, etc.
I don't think there was any such guarantee anyhow. But if you want
your XHTML documents treated as XML, serve them as such; if you
want them treated as HTML, serve them as such.
The whole idea of forbidding a particular document type to be
served with a particular Content-Type: header is silly, anyway.
You can serve HTML or XHTML as text/plain if you want to, and
a conformant client will duly display it as such.
> * people might start serving content which was XHTML as text/html,
> thus (as the document changes over time) no longer being informed by
> browsers of such minor flaws as WF errors.
Sharp tools cut.
> * tools that extract and process content (aggregators, etc) may not
> process such content as it is not labelled as being XML.
Everything's a tradeoff.
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org http://ccil.org/~cowan
The whole of Gaul is quartered into three halves.
-- Julius Caesar
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