[TxMt] start/endtag from previous word macro

[Kevin Ballard]

 From what I've heard, it's fine to server XHTML, but you really  
should server it as text/html rather than application/xml+xhtml. The  
reason is because if it's broken (i.e. non-validating), the browser  
still understands it as text/html but not as application/xml+xhtml.  
This is because Firefox and Safari (I don't know about others) uses a  
full-blown XML parser to read application/xml+xhtml files, but it  
uses a regular HTML parser to read text/html files, so any non- 
validating stuff will break completely as application/xml+xhtml but  
will work as text/html.

So basically, XHTML is perfectly fine to use. Just don't use  
application/xml+xhtml as your MIME type unless you're 100% sure that  
your page validates, because if any part of it doesn't, the entire  
page will be rendered unreadable as the parser says "hey this isn't  
valid!"

On Oct 9, 2005, at 4:43 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> The link is currently down (it seems), but there's also this:
>
>    http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml
>
> Which basically says: stick with HTML 4, because what's currently  
> happening is, that a lot of people deliver broken HTML (as text/ 
> html), and it probably wouldn't validate as strict XHTML (if  
> delivered as application/xml+xhtml, which one can't really use  
> because of lacking browser support, but which changes how the  
> document should validate).

-- 
Kevin Ballard
kevin at sb.org
http://www.tildesoft.com
http://kevin.sb.org

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