Re: XML declaration in XHTML causes problems

Masayasu Ishikawa <mimasa@w3.org> wrote:
> > 2.  I have found that including the XML declaration on the first line
> > causes pages to not be rendered as HTML in some browsers, including (but
> > not limited to) IE 5.5 for Mac.
> 
> This is known issue, unfortunately.
> 
> [1] http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2854.txt
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org
> W3C - World Wide Web Consortium

Is there a list somewhere of browsers that choke on the XML declaration? I
know WebTV will display it. Any others? I would prefer to not serve the
declaration to browsers that can't handle it...

Regards,


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Received on Friday, 30 March 2001 15:49:28 UTC