- From: Christian Smith <csmith@barebones.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:28:22 -0400
- To: Piers Williams <PiersW@zinc.co.uk>
- cc: www-html@w3.org
On Tuesday, June 27, 2000 at 21:04, PiersW@zinc.co.uk (Piers Williams) wrote: > Why is this? I thought the whole point was that if you came across a tag you > didn't understand, you just rendered the contents as if the tag wasn't > there. > > This happens on both IE 3 and NN 3 and seems to be due to the '?' at the > beginning, which begs the question why was _that_ character chosen when it > would break backwards compatability. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="charsetvalue" ?> is an XML Processor Instruction (see the XML spec). Older browsers which don't know about XML don't know how to handle this and may render it as raw text. It's not a "tag" per se. -- Christian Smith | csmith@barebones.com | http://web.barebones.com He who dies with the most friends... Is still dead!
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