- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 11:40:40 +0100
- To: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
On Friday, March 5, 2004, 10:15:38 AM, Eric wrote: EvdV> On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 08:08, Eric van der Vlist wrote: >> Hi Chris, >> >> On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 07:35, Chris Lilley wrote: >> > Firefox 0.8 tells me that it is using quirks mode for this resource, >> > which is served as text/html. >> > >> > Interesting to see what happened if it was treated as XML rather than >> > to-be-fixed-up tagsoup by the browser - eg by serving as >> > application/xhtml+xml >> >> I'll ask if they can do that. EvdV> It's a static site powered by an old version on IIS and if we switch to EvdV> application/xhtml+xml the pages can't be displayed in Internet EvdV> Explorer... So do as W3C does and serve application/xhtml+xml to those clients that list this in their accept headers,and text/html to the legacy browsers that are only able to handle text/html. EvdV> Welcome to real world :-( ! Thanks, but I was already there. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Member, W3C Technical Architecture Group
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