[thelist] XHTML 1.1 and content type

Tim Luoma luomat at peak.org
Mon Jul 29 12:41:01 CDT 2002


I was just reading through
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/

which currently points to
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/NOTE-xhtml-media-types-20020430

and came across
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/#summary-table

That tabe indicates that XHTML 1.1 files should be either

a) application/xhtml+xml
b) application/xml
c) text/xml

(with "a" being preferred) and *should not* be sent as text/html

Now it doesn't go as far as saying 'must not' but it doesn't say 'May'
either.

Wouldn't this confuse older browsers (who aren't going to know enough to
display application/xhtml+xml) ?

TjL, who should probably be asking this on the W3 list but who hopes
someone here will know enough to speak about it






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