- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 10:40:34 -0400 (EDT)
- To: CJ <hwoodcj@yahoo.co.uk>
- Cc: "www-validator-css@w3.org" <www-validator-css@w3.org>, plh@w3.org
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, CJ wrote: > > Question: Is it *absolutely* mandatory that the <?xml...> be the first > line (as the validator asserts) Yes; however you can do away with the XML declaration altogether if you put the character set declaration into the Content-Type line returned by the server. (For more details, search for "configuring MIME types" or such like). In general, though, since WinIE does not support XHTML, it's best to just use HTML4 for now. See: http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL "meow" /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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