Posted by Bergamot on 09/20/07 12:56

Peter J Ross wrote:
> In alt.html on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:02:31 GMT, Beauregard T. Shagnasty
> <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote:
>
>> entering the URL, the validator says:
>> "This Page Is Valid HTML 4.01 Strict!"
>
> Different content is being served to different browsers, according to
> what Accept: header is sent.

Why do people bother doing this for what is obviously plain HTML? There
is no benefit whatsoever that I can see. In fact, it is problematic when
you consider caching servers.

> The validator chooses the HTML version,

Which is all anyone else needs, at least for the OP's site.

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Berg

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