- From: Matthew Wilson <matthew@mjwilson.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 21:31:05 +0000
- To: Doug Daniels <rainking@rice.edu>, <www-annotation@w3.org>
At 15:19 23/01/03 -0600, Doug Daniels wrote: >Hi all, > >I'm trying to figure out how to format the body of annotations for >annozilla, and there doesn't seem to be a standard in place. Right now, >Amaya 7.1 is creating annotation bodies that look like: > > <html> > <head> > <title>Annotation of whatever</title> > </head> > <body> > <p>some body text goes here</p> > </body> > </html> > > >this sort of annotation 1) has no doctype and 2) has no namespace. as >such, when annotest.w3.org serves this document up with mimetype >"application/xhtml+xml", poor mozilla becomes utterly confused. seeing a >standards-compliant mimetype, it tries to render in standards compliance >mode. however, without a namespace and/or doctype, there's no styling >info, and the whole process gets hosed. > >so, I suggest that we have our clients, especially amaya, put a namespace >and/or doctype in the body html. A doctype would presumably cause havoc when the annotation body is posted along with the annotation information. Perhaps if the annotation server used a MIME type of 'text/html' ? Matthew
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