Re: xhtml and lang=en identifier

These are OS level peculiarities too, I think.  I set my IIS to put out
application/xhtml+xml for a "xhtml" extension.  Now the Beta Validator
works, but the Classic doesn't. The IE6 display
is peculiar too, with a xml declaration it shows the tree with the Public
DTD identifier as a "version"
attribute or as HTML content without.  Oh, did I mention that you have to
point the System
identifier at a local copy of the XHTML 1.1 DTD because the parser errors
out trying to load
non-existant modules?  Somebody should write a book on how to make your
users feel stupid
while still technically being compliant.  Dorothy, we're not in UNIX any
more.

Gannon J. Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ville Skyttä" <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
To: <www-validator@w3.org>
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: xhtml and lang=en identifier


>
> On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 18:32, Jim Ley wrote:
>
> > > 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.
> >
> > IE hasn't had a release since the mime-type was registered...
>
> IE 6 SP1 was released in the beginning of September.  I don't know if it
> "fixes" this, though.
> <http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/evaluation/ie6sp1.asp>
>
> --
> \/ille Skyttä
> ville.skytta at iki.fi
>

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