- From: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>
- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 13:14:34 +0200
- To: www-html@w3.org
Paul Nelson (ATC): > If you are making a simple web page do you really want the user to be > setting MIME type of "application/xhtml+xml"? If he is using any kind of XML dialect he should send his document with some kind of XML MIME type. That said, "application/xhtml+xml" would not have been my primary choice for XHTML, but something beginning with "text/" instead, not plain "text/html" though. > It seems that "text/html" or creating a MIME type of "text/xhtml" > for well formed requirement would be a better option. The latter might have been -- past tense, lost battle. The former, however, was never an option, because it effectively means "tag soup" for pretty much every implementation, whereas XML promises straight-forward parsing. Introducing a new MIME type was the right call. XHTML 1.0 Appendix C had good intentions behind, but proved counter-productive. XHTML 1.1 got it right and should not be worsened now. Either you want X(HT)ML or you don't. Everything else does harm in one way or another.
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