Hi Lynne,
Thanks for your comments.
Unless I'm very much mistaken, it 'is' sent as text/html - that's the
point. OK, it does say that it is application/xhtml+xml in the meta tag,
but that is just ignored when it's sent with the correct mime type.
Also, try as I might, I can't get it to be invalid when using the w3c
checker. . .
??????
If I'm missing something here, perhaps one of our learned colleagues
will tell me?
--
Best Regards,
Bob McClelland
Cornwall (UK)
www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk
Lynne Pope wrote:
I didn't want my first contribution to the group to be a comment on
another person's website, but as you said you are learning Bob I
thought you might find this helpful. The problem with browser
sniffing is that you have to be very careful to serve the right
information. At the moment, your site does not validate for css or
for HTML 4.01. In IE, your site shows <meta
http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; It
needs to be sent with the "text/html" mime type. A little tweak to
your php code and you will have it nailed ;)
Regards,
Lynne
On 1/6/06, *designer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
The approach I use (I'm learning, incidentally) was triggered
originally by Georg : write your page as XHTML ( 1.1 even) and
serve it whilst testing as application/xhtml+xml. When it
validates and there are no well formedness errors, you can serve
it in any way you want/need, knowing that 'it's ready'. For
anyone who hasn't seen it, a great way to actually use the
resulting code is to use PHP to check the http_accept and insert
the DTD header/mimetype as appropriate (see
http://www.workingwith.me.uk/articles/scripting/mimetypes/
I have used this approach on my site ( [1 ]below) and this serves
the pages as html 4.01 to IE , and xhtml1.1 to 'modern browsers
like FF, Opera, etc. I'm not sure of the real world value at this
time, but certainly it is an excellent discipline in helping me
write well formed pages.
Best Regards,
Bob McClelland
Cornwall (UK)
[1] http://www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk
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