- From: William F. Hammond <hammond@csc.albany.edu>
- Date: 20 Dec 2001 09:37:44 -0500
- To: www-html@w3.org
Henri Sivonen <henris@clinet.fi> writes:
> Of the old browsers with some kind of plug-in architecture, Netscape, Opera
> and Mac IE, AFAIK, can't provide arbitrary document subtrees as data for
> plug-ins. Is this all about "supporting" the "XML data island" stuff in
> Windows IE? "XML data islands" inside text/html soup are already considered
> harmful.
Off point. The proposal does not involve xml data islands in text/html.
It is simply to have to have the new HTTP content-type header value
Content-type: text/html; profile=xhtml
as an alternative to various other choices including:
application/xhtml+xml
text/xml
application/xml
for valid, functioning XHTML documents.
The difference is that many extant user agents will not (and should
not) attempt any rendering of the last three.
There are various sensible ways that a content provider might make
use of this option.
The proposal is not intended to suggest that "text/html; profile=xhtml"
is suitable for every XHTML document.
-- Bill
Received on Thursday, 20 December 2001 09:37:54 UTC