Re: HTML or XHTML - why do you use it?

On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 05:15:59PM -0500, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
| > If a browser were to choose which rendering path to use (xml or tag soup)
| > depending on, say, the doctype
| 
| Then all the currently-authored bogo-XHTML would break in that browser, and the
| site designer, who only tests in IE/Windows, will neither know nor care.  This
| is explicitly covered in Ian's article....

Yes, but if you read me message fully, you'd see that I suggested that 
IE/Windows is the browser *most* likely to do doctype sniffing, because of 
their history of ignoring MIME types:

	http://www.pinkjuice.com/svg/mime.xhtml
	http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5FP0F1P6AK.html [1]
	http://p2p.wrox.com/archive/xslt/2001-01/86.asp
	http://lists.over.net/pipermail/mod_gzip/2001-November/005690.html

[1] The article also mentions Opera as ignoring MIME types. It is worth 
noting that the option to ignore MIME types is disabled by default.
	

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