- From: Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>
- Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 23:22:58 -0500
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Robert Miner <RobertM@dessci.com>, <hammond@csc.albany.edu>, <mozilla-mathml@mozilla.org>, <www-talk@w3.org>
Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: >> I have an HTML document that is well-formed XML. I want it to be read by my >> grandma who runs Netscape 3.0. I must send it as text/html so that she can >> read it with Netscape's HTML parser. Netscape 7.0, which understands XML >> just fine, realizes that my document is XML and thus parses it with its XML >> parser. Everybody wins. Where is the issue, Ian? > > In the case you describe, you would not be able to tell the difference > between Netscape 7.0 handling the document as text/html, and Netscape 7.0 > handling the document as text/xml. Then I think that Netscape 7.0 is broken, since it should throw an error if my page is not well-formed XML. > So clearly that is not the case you care about. Actually it is. Others care about MathML, which I will also defend. Assuming that I included MathML in this HTML document, would you have a problem with the above scenario? -- [ Aaron Swartz | me@aaronsw.com | http://www.aaronsw.com ]
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