- From: Chris Croome <chris@webarchitects.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:29:17 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
Received on Thursday, 29 June 2000 01:57:45 UTC
Hi Thanks for this, I have just installed the X11 Netscape 3.04 to have a play (seems to get _very_ confused by my .netscape directory from NN4.x!) and it looks a bit crap with the XML declaration... if it's omitted is it still valid XHTML and also is it OK to serve it as ISO rather than UTF-8? Chris On Tue 27-Jun-2000 at 03:32:02PM -0400, Ian Graham wrote: > > The XML declaration appears at the start of the document, and has > the form: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="charsetvalue" ?> > > However, older HTML browsers (e.g., Navigator 3) don't understand this, > and display this line -- thus you need to omit it if the pages are being > served as HTML to older HTML browsers. > -- Chris Croome <chris@webarchitects.co.uk> http://www.webarchitects.co.uk/ http://chris.croome.net/
Received on Thursday, 29 June 2000 01:57:45 UTC