- From: Jacques Distler <distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 14:23:21 -0500
- To: William F Hammond <hammond@csc.albany.edu>
- Cc: www-math@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On May 28, 2007, at 1:41 PM, William F Hammond wrote: >> Works fine in IE6+MathPlayer, but IE7+MathPlayer users see an XML >> document tree. The HTTP header sent out says >> >> Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=UTF-8 > > I don't know what issue might be involved here with content-type > handling. > > My impression has been that UTF-8 characters are handled by > IE+MathPlayer (whether IE 6 or 7) when found marked up > as cdata entities, e.g., α If you're saying that I could save a few bytes by outputting UTF-8 characters instead of NCR's, when converting XHTML+MathML named- entities, you are right. But I can get better bandwidth savings by implementing ETags and compression, etc --- and that's where I'm going to spend my time optimizing. > For this a charset specification is not required in the HTTP header. Not required, but never a bad idea, either. I don't think it's the charset declaration that's screwing up IE7, here. But I could be wrong ... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) Comment: PGP Key - http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/distler.asc iD8DBQFGWyw/nyqPIXpYcjcRAmhTAKDXRcDkshyI1ME5BETKVEAZdWVrPgCfZGY7 qBP4aNL4DF67YkEQfZr8Zs0= =qFpd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Received on Monday, 28 May 2007 19:24:07 UTC