- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 16:51:07 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
- To: Robert Miner <RobertM@dessci.com>
- cc: <aswartz@swartzfam.com>, <hammond@csc.albany.edu>, <mozilla-mathml@mozilla.org>, <www-talk@w3.org>
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Robert Miner wrote: > > Hi. > > > But you can already do that. That's no problem, and works fine with > > sending all text/html through HTML parsers. What people are arguing is > > that text/html should be sent through _XML_ parsers on modern UAs, so that > > namespaces can be processed... which immediately means that the document > > would not work on older browsers, so the argument falls apart. > > I presume you already know I disagree with this, but I feel obliged to > correct this misapprehension at every instance. I don't want to send > HTML to XML parsers -- I only want XML ***incorrectly identified with > the MIME type text/html due to circumstances beyond the authors > control*** to be sent to XML parsers. Would you also like PNGs incorrectly identified with the MIME type text/html due to circumstances beyond the authors control to be sent to PNG decoders? -- Ian Hickson )\ _. - ._.) fL Invited Expert, CSS Working Group /. `- ' ( `--' The views expressed in this message are strictly `- , ) - > ) \ personal and not those of Netscape or Mozilla. ________ (.' \) (.' -' ______
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