Posted by David Dorward on 01/23/06 10:12

John Salerno wrote:

>> You are quite right that many are against using XHTML at all. I am not
>> one of these and now write and serve most new pages as true xhtml 1.1
>> to browsers that will accept it and as html 4.01 strict to IE6 and
>> other browsers that do not say they will accept the mime type
>> application/xhtml+xml in the header exchange.

> But is this an issue if you use XHTML 1.0 instead?

XHTML 1.0 has Appendix C which includes some rules to make it "compatible"
with HTML, and if you follow those rules the you are allowed to serve it as
text/html.

The main problems are that there is a lack of tools on the market for
testing Appendix C conformance, that its too easy to do silly things like
comment out a style sheet (thanks to differences between XHTML and HTML),
and that Appendix C doesn't make the document HTML compatible, it makes it
compatible with HTML browsers which share certain common (but *not*
universal) bugs.

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