- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:10:37 +0000
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
Could you clarify (or cite a clarification), David ?
Are you saying that well-formed XHTML is not
recognised by IE as such, but if it is mangled
in some way (and if so, in what way ?), it is
then so recognised ?
Philip Taylor
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David Woolley wrote:
>
> > 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!
>
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