Re: Bug 85/4494 (keeping track of validation statistics for various purposes) from Frank Ellermann on 2008-03-07 (www-validator@w3.org from March 2008)

From: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 08:28:59 +0100
To: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <fqqqn1$o9p$1@ger.gmane.org>

Nikita The Spider The Spider wrote:

> I would guess that many servers that conditionally send
> application/xhtml+xml explicitly check for the presence
> of that string in the Accept header and if it isn't present
> fall back to text/html.

ACK, that makes sense.  

Unrelated, I like your "encoding divination flowchart",
<http://nikitathespider.com/articles/EncodingDivination.html>
the HTML5 folks could use it to prove that they cannot
really make it worse, because it already is FUBAR... ;-)

 Frank

Received on Friday, 7 March 2008 07:26:58 UTC