What is this all about? Is it a bad practice to serve XHTML as text/html? is it harmful? what are the disvantages?
The thuth is I cant understand what is this all about, and I didnt really understood the whole article (for example, what's that "tag soup" expression means?).
After reading the article (and some related articles) I feel i'm doing things in the wrong way (because I serve xhtml as text/html, without even really understand what does it mean).
I'm newbie in web-standards practice, but I have strong beliefs in standards and i like to do the things in the right way.
I hope to hear clarifing and reassuring words from all the list, and specially from the gurus of WSG.
regards Mannequin pd: excuse my poor english.
Paul Farrell 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
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Firstly, as a new member, I can't believe it took me so long to find WSG.
As I understand it, the problem with serving XHTML as text/html is that an user agents view the code as 'tag soup', and therefore present malformed code normally. I think that as long as a developer regularly validates their code, they can continue to serve XHTML as text/html until MSIE supports application/xhtml+xml.
Once again, great list. Although I find myself sitting here immersed in these email when I really should be working.
Regards Paul Farrell
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