[Simon St. Laurent]
From: "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl(_at_)w3(_dot_)org>
XHTML 1.0 is hereby sent back to the HTML working group for further work.
A few respondents were also concerned about the use of the text/xml
media type for delivering xHTML, considering this to be "premature".
If a document conforming to XML 1.0 and XML Namespaces is not to be
considered "text/xml", this raises an important issue as to what is.
[For text/* below, read 'text/* or application/*'.]
I don't understand why they were using text/xml in the first place. First
of all, XHTML is still HTML, and there is a well-defined media type for it:
text/html. But more importantly, XHTML is largely an exercise in
pragmatism; it's intended to work in older browsers (cf. <br /> syntax) -
text/html will work in older browsers, while text/xml won't. Is this a
hard decision?
-Chris
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