Re: The HTML Element

That seems only logical. After all, there's already a different MIME 
type, right? If W3C is already recommending that XHTML pages be served 
as "application/xhtml+xml" versus "text/html", then changing the tag to 
<xhtml> is only logical.

Jason

Arthur Wiebe wrote:

> 
> I propose that since XHTML is XHTML not HTML, that we change the <html> 
> element to something that would make more sense. I'm not saying that 
> <html> is hard to understand but it doesn't make sense to have an <html> 
> parent element when it's not an HTML page but is an XHTML page.
> Why not change it to something like <xhtml>? Or if someone can't stand 
> that extra letter then we could also change it to <root>?
> This has been on my mind ever since a guy asked me why I was using the 
> <html> tag when it's an XHTML page.
> <Arthur/>
> 
> 

Received on Sunday, 15 June 2003 03:34:55 UTC