Posted by Nikita the Spider on 07/19/06 14:11

In article <0921p3-9h7.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk>,
Toby Inkster <usenet200607@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:

> Nikita the Spider wrote:
>
> > Web developers who want to deliver XHTML via HTTP have three choices:
> > 1) Ignore IE users
> > 2) Use content-negotiation to deliver HTML to IE and XHTML to everything
> > else.
> > 3) Deliver XHTML as HTML, which amounts to lying about the content type.
>
> 4) Deliver XHTML as "application/xml" to IE with a "pass-through" XSLT
> transformation. see: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq#ie

Never heard of that one before, thanks. Is it used much in practice?

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