Posted by ironcorona on 05/04/06 09:48

David Dorward wrote:

> In an XHTML document it is fine, however XHTML documents served as text/html
> have additional restrictions to reduce the number of problems they cause to
> browsers which are designed for handing HTML.

So THAT'S what that's about. I've just noticed recently that the W3
validator is insisting on a character encoding declaration. Something like:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
in order for it to be strict XHTML.

It's all making sense now.

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ironcorona

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