[FX.php List] Tired of making special solutions for every browser?

[Kevin Futter]

On 8/05/09 1:04 AM, "Tim 'Webko' Booth" <tim at nicheit.com.au> wrote:

> 
> OK, now I'm intrigued - if I have declared my outputted page as XHTML
> in the head, and it then validates vs a decent validator, and it is
> valid XML - how is it not XHTML??

Tim, Leo is right. If the MIME type of the served document is set as
text/html, then it is NOT interpreted by the browser as XHTML, but plain
HTML. The correct MIME type for XHTML is application/xhtml+xml.

The reason most people don't do this (or know to do this) is because it
fails ABSOLUTELY in IE6 (not sure about subsequent versions). All you get is
a blank page. When people talk about IE6 not supporting XHTML, this is what
they mean. It has to be sent to IE6 as HTML, or no dice.

It's analogous to the document encoding issue. Just because your META tag
says your document is UTF-8, doesn't mean it is!


-- 
Kevin Futter
Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/


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