- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:26:43 +0200
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org, "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
On Sunday, July 25, 2004, 12:20:14 PM, Henri wrote: HS> On Jul 24, 2004, at 01:17, Chris Lilley wrote: >> [1] (HTML 4 transitional) Triggers Quirks mode for Netscape HS> That's not a real problem, because authors of new documents are HS> 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. HS> If you want the best compatibility, I'd suggest serving HTML 4.01 as HS> text/html. Certainly, serving application/xhtml+xml to Lynx and Google HS> does not lead to the best compatibility. Also, if you serve text/html HS> to IE and application/xhtml+xml to others, you deprive Mozilla and HS> Safari users of incremental display. Where does it say in the XHTML spec that incremental display must be disabled for that media type? HS> (Yes, Google does not support application/xhtml+xml as demonstrated by HS> this query: HS> http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Alite+site%3Amacsanomat.fi) Google does not support any XML media types. The suggestion has been made to them, often, that they should do so. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Member, W3C Technical Architecture Group
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