- From: Kelly Miller <lightsolphoenix@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:41:05 -0400
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Woolley wrote: | | However, in this case, you aren't using HTML, but XHTML. In my view, | it is almost certain that you are doing so for unsound reasons, but | there are rules for the character set in XML and in fact the default | is already UTF-8! However, it is likely that you are actually serving | to Internet Explorer, which doesn't support XHTML, so you've had to | serve it with headers that say that it is HTML. In fact, your meta | element also says that it is HTML. You therefore have a confused | situation where you are relying on browser error recovery to treat | a document written in XHTML as though it were broken HTML. I'd suggest | the first thing to do is to convert to XHTML 4.01 to eliminate the | error recovery aspects. Once again, lack of support in the majority browser hampers adoption of XHTML over HTML; why would someone want to use XHTML if they have to treat it as HTML anyway? As long as IE doesn't support application/xhtml+xml, XHTML will run into this brick wall, with no way around it (short of IE being fixed or people changing their browsers)... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEf6U/vCLXx0V8XHQRAnw3AJ9M2OeRABmkJ4IOwR7yfmoDbdsNzACcDR0f dso3e0zN0lre2hwC7FCCXVg= =tHfG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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