Re: HTML and XML

Elliotte Harold wrote:
> 
> Julian Reschke wrote:
> 
>> If they do they are in violation of the relevant specs.
>>
> 
> I'm not so sure. I'm not aware of any current specs that attempt to 
> prescribe the handling of a byte stream received over HTTP, though 
> certainly HTML 5 seems to think it can prescribe that.
> 
> Regardless though, browsers *and other clients* will do with the byte 
> streams they receive what makes the most sense for them. No spec can 
> prohibit this.

That is true, but then it's also true that in many cases, UAs indeed 
trust the content type header.

BR, Julian

Received on Wednesday, 11 February 2009 16:06:03 UTC