Re: Promotion of XHTML

John Lewis wrote:

>Peter wrote on Monday, December 30, 2002 at 11:47:23 AM:
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>>Which leads me to believe that text/html is correct for XHTML
>>documents when used as HTML for web sites.
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>That's true if it's HTML-compatible XHTML 1.0, but not (for example)
>XHTML 1.1 or normal XHTML 1.0. The original point was, for those
>documents NOT served as text/html, Win IE chokes. The reason is, of
>course, that Win IE only supports HTML, not XHTML. It can handle
>HTML-compatible XHTML 1.0 *because* it's HTML-compatible. Win IE has
>no actual XHTML support--just HTML support. Hopefully a future version
>will support XHTML.
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For an example, try opening the page in my signature.  IE will want to 
save it to disk.  An XHTML-compatible browser such as Mozilla will show 
it fine.  It is properly served as application/xhtml+xml since it is 
XHTML 1.1.

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Brant Langer Gurganus
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