- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:37:46 +0100
- To: forums@david-woolley.me.uk
- CC: whatwg@whatwg.org, public-html@w3.org, www-math@w3.org, www-svg@w3.org
> The reason that people don't serve as application/xhtml+xml is the > existence of legacy browsers, particularly IE, in the field. However > those legacy browsers don't handle SVG or MathML, so that is not a > relevant consideration here. Actually so long as you have mathplayer installed (which is needed anyway to render mathml with IE) you can send an application/xhtml+xml xhtml+mathml document to IE and it will render just fine, and compatibility with firefox and other mozilla based browsers. http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathplayer/author/creatingpages.htm#InteroperabilityConsiderations Supporting existing use of mathml _is_ very relevant, surely. To avoid trampling on other doctypes mathplayer only intercepts application/xhtml+xml if they have a mathml doctype or namespace declaration somewhere near the top but in many ways it would be nice if it always did it, so anyone could serve application/xhtml+xml to IE (and have it render to a HTML DOM, not an XML one, but usually far preferable to a folding tree display, or save file dialog) > (If cross posting is to become the standard, could I suggest the > list server be modified to: I agree cross posting multiple lists is getting out of hand. David
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