Re: Why PHP won

Michael A. Peters wrote: > Per Jessen wrote: >> Michael A. Peters wrote: >> >> [anip] >>> and you can use DOMDocument to completely >>> construct the page before sending it to the browser - allowing you >>> to translate xhtml to html for browsers that don't properly support >>> xhtml+xml. >> >> I suspect you meant "translate xml to html"? I publish everything in >> xhtml, no browser has had a problem with that yet. >> > > IE 6 does not accept the xml+html mime type. I don't believe IE7 does > either, I think IE 8 beta does but I'm not sure. I don't use any of them, but I thought even IE6 was able to deal with xml. > If you are sending xhtml with an html mime type you are breaking a > standard, even if it seems to work. > xhtml is suppose to be sent with the xml+xhtml mime type. >From http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/ "In general, 'application/xhtml+xml' should be used for XHTML Family documents, and the use of 'text/html' should be limited to HTML-compatible XHTML Family documents intended for delivery to user agents that do not explicitly state in their HTTP Accept header that they accept 'application/xhtml+xml' [HTTP]. " /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (2.7°C)