- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:27:25 +0200
- To: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
- CC: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, Jonathan Rees <jar@creativecommons.org>, "www-tag@w3.org WG" <www-tag@w3.org>, XHTML WG <public-xhtml2@w3.org>
Steven Pemberton wrote: > ... >>> Yes, presumably a mistake. It's a real pain that content-encoding is >>> enmeshed with mime type in HTML. Lucky that HTTP headers are >>> authoritative! >> >> But then, the page is relying on IE not trusting the header. > > The HTTP headers are authoritative. > ... Yes, they are. But IE currently violates this requirement. If IE gets fixed, the page will stop to display as HTML (unless, at the same time, IE learns about XHTML). BR, Julian
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