Christopher R. Maden wrote:
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?
In my understanding, future XHTML will NOT work on old browsers and it
will contain vocabularies other than XHTML (e.g., MathML, RDF, SMIL,
something I would invent tomorrow).
Makoto
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