Re: Serving XHTML as XML

Hi Jesper,

> Let me start by once again reminding the list that
> Gez and http://juicystudio.com also serves
> application/xhtml+xml to browsers understanding it.
>
> We only disagree about what to serve to the rest, IE,
> Lynx, old browsers, etc. Or rather: I accept both
> solutions and said so in my last mail.

This isn't what I was objecting to. If it were, we would disagree on more
than what to serve user agents that do not understand application/xhtml+xml;
we would also disagree on what you should send those that do support that
MIME type. Whether or not I use content negotiation is also irrelevant to
the point I was trying to make.

> But if it works for you do it. In my last mail I even called
> that practice for nice. It is not fair when you say: "why do
> you want to persecute people"

I apologise if that is unfair. If I can refer you back to the part I was
objecting to:

> WCAG 11.1 says:
>
> "Use W3C technologies when they are available and appropriate for
> a task and use the latest versions when supported." [Priority 2]
>
> Since is has been possible for several years to serve XHTML as
> XML to browsers understanding it, I would say that one can't
> claim Conformance Level "Double-A" if one is just using HTML.

This is the part I object to. XHTML isn't properly supported by the majority
of current user agents at this moment in time, so I fail to see why
developers should not be able to claim Double-A if they produce valid HTML
that adheres to all priority 1 and priority 2 checkpoints.

I hope that's clarified my stand on the issue.

Best regards,

Gez
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Received on Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:54:57 UTC