- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 13:20:14 +0300
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org, "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
On Jul 24, 2004, at 01:17, Chris Lilley wrote: > [1] (HTML 4 transitional) Triggers Quirks mode for Netscape That's not a real problem, because authors of new documents are expected to use an HTML 4.01 doctype. > In practice therefore to get best compatibility you need to author in > XHTML, have a perl script or something that cuts out the xml > declaration and ensures the string <html or <title is in the first 256 > bytes and generally produces something that will not trip up IE, > send the processed stuff as text/html to Win/IE and send the authored > stuff as application/xhtml+xml for everyone else. If you want the best compatibility, I'd suggest serving HTML 4.01 as text/html. Certainly, serving application/xhtml+xml to Lynx and Google does not lead to the best compatibility. Also, if you serve text/html to IE and application/xhtml+xml to others, you deprive Mozilla and Safari users of incremental display. (Yes, Google does not support application/xhtml+xml as demonstrated by this query: http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Alite+site%3Amacsanomat.fi) -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://iki.fi/hsivonen/
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