[TxMt] Misguided use of content-type in XHTML/1.1 template

[Brett Terpstra]

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

That's what my recently updated XHTML/1.1 reads...

Brett

On Mar 4, 2007, at 6:00 PM, porneL wrote:

>
> I've just noticed that template for XHTML/1.1 has been changed to  
> include application/xhtml+xml content type in <meta> element.
>
> This is completly misguided as <meta> is there only for backwards- 
> compatibility non-XHTML user-agents -- that is only those which *do  
> not* support application/xhtml+xml.
>
> From W3C XHTML FAQ:
> "Note that a meta http-equiv statement will not be recognized by  
> XML processors, and authors SHOULD NOT include such a statement in  
> an XHTML document served as 'application/xml' (and 'application/ 
> xhtml+xml' as well for that matter)."
>
> Please change it back to text/html or remove <meta> element completly.
>
> -- 
> regards, porneL
>
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