- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:53:44 +0000 (GMT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
> The main reason is that Internet Explorer has no understanding of XHTML
> when served as XHTML. Besides, you gain nothing by using real XHTML on the
> web, except possibly the phenomenon that _any_ violation of general XML
> rules ("well-formedness rules") should make a browser report the error to
> the user and refrain from displaying any of the content of the page.
Just for clarification, this only applies when the document is served in
a way that IE will not understand to be XHTML! Unless you content
type negotiate, you cannot have it display correctly on IE and be well-
formedness checked by other browsers. This is why there is so much
not-well-formed XHTML in the wild!
Received on Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:55:18 UTC