- From: Gannon J. Dick <gdick@verizon.net>
- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 10:24:57 -0600
- To: "BarkerJr" <BarkerJr@ClanCdG.com>, "Jim Ley" <jim@jibbering.com>
- Cc: <www-validator@w3.org>
> > the problem is with people > > serving up XHTML 1.1 as text/html. > > Is it just me or do none of the alternatives work right in Internet Explorer 6? >IE 6 does not support XHTML 1.1 no. >IE attempts to validate the XML doc, if it's served as one of the XML >types, I think it's a fault in IE though, but it's still irrelevant as it >would just show an XML tree, not the document. >IE does not support XHTML. MS has to support MIME type, and DOCTYPE as recognized information transfer methods, they just don't want to (see:NIH Syndrome) for commercial reasons. IIS puts out a MIME type of application/octet-stream. The W3C HTML Beta Validator fails. The W3C HTML Validator succeeds in the case of XHTML 1.0 and XHTML 1.1. However, IE6 fails to display XHTML 1.1 as a tree (e.g. with a *.xml file extension) because of the way the DTD for XHTML 1.1 is written. Knowing that MS has no choice in supporting recognized information transfer methods, I have some work arounds for the syntax diddling they do. Contact me directly though, this is not the W3C's problem.
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