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Posted by Michael Fesser on 11/14/06 00:07
..oO(Sanders Kaufman)
>Michael Fesser wrote:
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>> IE only accepts it when you deliver it as text/html, but then it's no
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>That's because XHTML is text, and it is html.
XHTML can be much more than that, but not as text/html.
>> XHTML anymore. It's written in an HTML-compatible syntax, it's delivered
>> as HTML and parsed as HTML.
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>And that's what makes it work.
Then there's no reason to use XHTML currently, simply because it doesn't
provide any benefits over HTML.
OTOH XHTML _does_ have its benefits, but only if it's interpreted as
such and not as HTML. This, as said, requires a modern browser.
>> If you really want to use XHTML in a proper way then you have to use the
>> correct content type application/xhtml+xml.
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>That's one way.
>But one of the reasons it was developed was to
>ensure that the web content can be deliverd in a
>greater number of ways, and to a greater number of
>clients... including and especially, HTML clients.
Properly written HTML can do the same.
Micha
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