Re: text/html for html and xhtml

William F Hammond <hammond@csc.albany.edu> hodd gsachd:

> My only point is that a user agent should parse as xml a
> document whose preamble indicates xhtml even when the mimetype is
> text/html.  Or, if that is too hard or too politically difficult,
> going forward the WG should provide a formula for the front of a
> document that asks for an xhtml parse.

Such a "mode switch" had to be backwards compatible. Non supporting  
UAs must display nothing useful. Something like this hurts all current  
standards, but works nice in all major web browsers:

<plaintext xhtml>

(Current browsers just display the source code of the following  
document, if served as text/html.)

j.j.

Received on Friday, 18 April 2008 16:51:10 UTC