Re: HTTP_ACCEPT from Anders Widman on 2004-05-21 (www-validator@w3.org from May 2004)

From: Anders Widman <andewid@tnonline.net>
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 19:15:35 +0200
To: Neil Crosby - RSG <necr@pml.ac.uk>
Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <1746917461.20040521191535@tnonline.net>

  Yes,  thank  you. The code is very useful and I have adopted some of
  it  into  my own code =). I had not thought of using a simple script
  to transform the xhtml 1.0 into html 4.01.

  I am also glad to see that the w3 validator is improving too.

  //Anders

> Anders Widman wrote:
>> 
>>   Hello,
>> 
>>   It  would  be  good  if the validator sent a HTTP_ACCEPT header when
>>   validating webpages.
>> 
>>   I  am  testing  for  the  presence  of application/xhtml+xml in that
>>   header  and  sends  my page as such if present. This is so I can use
>>   older code for older browsers.
>> 
> Hi Anders,

> I agree that it would be the correct thing to do for the validator to
> send a HTTP_ACCEPT header when validating pages.

> I   too

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