- From: j.j. <moz@jeka.info>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:37:28 +0200
- To: William F Hammond <hammond@csc.albany.edu>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org, www-math@w3.org, www-svg@w3.org
"j.j." <moz@jeka.info> hodd gsachd: > > 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.) To make it clear: No problem solved. The result would be a situation like today with serving as xhtml. j.j.
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