Re: Is this legal XHTML 1.1?

At 3:43 AM +0000 12/9/02, Ian Hickson wrote:

>In any case, it is illegal to send XHTML 1.1 as text/html, so the whole
>excercise is pointless as no legacy browser would be able to render the
>page in the first place.


Where exactly does it say that? I didn't notice anything in the XHTML 
1.1 specs about the proper MIME media type, and this was not a listed 
change from 1.0, which does explicitly allow text/html, but I could 
easily have missed something.
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