Well.. the standards are pretty clear on this subject: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/xhtml-media-types.html#media-types http://www.w3.org/International/articles/serving-xhtml/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801/#guidelines
among I can quote stuff like this: "XHTML documents served as 'text/html' will not be processed as XML [XML10], e.g. well-formedness errors may not be detected by user agents" "The 'text/html' media type [RFC2854] is primarily for HTML, not for XHTML" "...many XHTML 1.0 files are actually served using the text/html MIME type. In this case, the user agent will treat the file as HTML" It seems pretty clear that if you serve a valid xhtml1.0 document as text/html, it will be parsed as broken html by the standard sgml-parser. Moreover, if the DTD is modulated (as it is if you include the dtd for mathml) the mathml will be shown in plaintext, NOT properly rendered via the xml-parser... Basicly, if you can get away with sending as text/html, you really shouldn't be using xhtml in the first place. On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 09:23:43AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have been following this discussion (belatedly) > > It's all in the MIME > http://www.juicystudio.com/all-in-the-mime.asp > > first paragraph: > " There have been a lot of articles recently about web standards; in > particular, using XHTML and serving it as text/html. Personally, I'm not > that bothered whether people serve XHTML as text/html, but think it's > important that authors understand why this is wrong. Although I'm not > bothered about content developers serving XHTML as text/html, I don't agree > with people encouraging content developers to deliver XHTML as text/html. " > > I wondered what other memebrs on the list thought about it and its > implications? > > with regards > > Steven Faulkner > Web Accessibility Consultant > National Information & Library Service (NILS) > 454 Glenferrie Road > Kooyong Victoria 3144 > Phone: (613) 9864 9281 > Fax: (613) 9864 9210 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > National Information Library Service > A subsidiary of RBS.RVIB.VAF Ltd. > > > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > Best regards (my first post, yay!) -- Christian Sonne aka. FreakCERS Stud. scient. math-phys at University of Copenhagen -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GM/S/CS/O d? s: a--->? C++ UL++>$ P+ L++ E--- W++ N o@ K? w !O M-- V? PS++(+) PE@ Y-- PGP-@ t+ 5? X++ R@ tv++ b+(++) DI+>++ D G@ e>+++++ h! r-(--) y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ http://geeksbynature.dk ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
