[Bug 785] validator does not supply reasonable Accept header by default

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=785





------- Comment #11 from patomas@hotmail.com  2007-04-20 14:47 -------
Hi people

(In reply to comment #10)
> (In reply to comment #9)
> > Or, do you expect that all the pages made with xhtml should be served with
> > application/xhtml+xml with out detecting if the browser can or can not manage
> > such a thing?
> 
> No, XHTML 1.0 documents served as text/html validate just fine. try it :)
> 

Well I am not sure how to interpret that answer, may be is a joke or may be it
is serious... just in case, I will not feel bad for it...

But...

As we can read in the XHTML Media Types document from 1 August 2002
(http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/), the w3c states this:
"This document summarizes the best current practice for using various Internet
media types for serving various XHTML Family documents. In summary,
application/xhtml+xml' SHOULD be used for XHTML Family documents, and the use
of 'text/html' SHOULD be limited to HTML-compatible XHTML 1.0 documents.
'application/xml' and 'text/xml' MAY also be used, but whenever appropriate,
'application/xhtml+xml' SHOULD be used rather than those generic XML media
types."

So, it means, among other interpretations, that the validator should offer a
fair option to validate a document with the application/xhtml+xml media type
through some kind of navigation option in the page or shouldn'b any kind of
reminder that the document served as text/html is not correct
application/xhtml+xml.

And of course it only applies to xhtml 1.0, but if you are validating an xhtml
1.1 document, ther is no possible interpretation to use text/html. Execept, the
fact that the documents should be served that way for the Explorer.

So i think that the point is still valid, it means, the request filled here.

Bye people

Received on Friday, 20 April 2007 14:47:17 UTC