- From: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 09:12:31 -0600
- To: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- CC: www-html <www-html@w3.org>, Tina Holmboe <tina@greytower.net>
Okay, okay... I give up. You are right, I am wrong. IE is broken and everyone uses it, so we are screwed. There's a shock. Let's all roll over and keep using 1997 technology and hacking around using weird-ass abstraction libraries to implement "Web 2.0" (gag-me) on top of incompatible underlying implementations rather than attempting to help the Internet evolve toward something light-weight, fast, and extensible like XML/XHTML. Tag soup is sooo much better. Honestly, people. You all disappoint me. But you are right - the HTTP spec does permit this broken behavior and I did not know that. In my world I always personally ignore */* in the accept header. Groups like the OMA have declared that you cannot use it that way for this very reason. Its silly. Oh well. I will continue to use XHTML 'cause it works well, really it does. Or rather, it works no worse than anything else and it is forward looking. You all do whatever you want. I can sleep at night. -- Shane P. McCarron Phone: +1 763 786-8160 x120 Managing Director Fax: +1 763 786-8180 ApTest Minnesota Inet: shane@aptest.com
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