- From: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:14:58 +0000
- To: Yves MARCOUX <Yves.MARCOUX@UMontreal.CA>
- Cc: W3C HTML Mailing List <www-html@w3.org>
On 11 Dec 2007, at 15:30, Yves MARCOUX wrote: > 1- Don't you think that, if a file is served with a "close enough" > type (or extension, for a local file), the browsers should infer > from the namespace & DOCTYPE that the file is actually XHTML? My two > cents is that it would be a safe inference to make, but maybe I am > overseeing something. <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2000Sep/0024.html> was advice from the HTML WG recommending the current behaviour of browsers. The email that it quotes gives reasons for detecting whether a document is XHTML (and not just conforming XHTML), and concludes with asking if they should sniff at all. -- Geoffrey Sneddon <http://gsnedders.com/>
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