Posted by Steve Pugh on 12/17/29 11:49

Chaddy2222 wrote:
> Rik wrote:
> >
> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml;
> > charset=ISO-8859-1" />
> >
> > Hmmmmz, not sure wether the choice "application/xhtml+xml" was
> > appropriate, but I've forgotten the exact rules :-).
> >
> Well, it can be done, but a lot of people say that HTML4.01 strict
> works just as well.
> It's actually served as HTML but it has the XHTML info their. If IE had
> better support for XHTML then the pages could be served up as XHTML
> instead of HTML, but XHTML is not well supported yet.

The real issue here is that your server is sending out content-type:
text/html so saying application/xhtml+xml is useless as the real http
header trumps the meta tag fake.

If you did send application/xhtml+xml in the real HTTP header then by
default IE wouldn't be able to render the page at all.

You've gone to the effort of putting some code into your pages that
conflicts with what your server says about the page, and which if it
was honoured would make the page unusable by a large segment of users.

So why did you bother?

Steve

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