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Friday, January 10, 2003

XHTML 1.1 compliant

With a few turns of the screwdriver (i.e. removing unsupported name attributes from the site's anchor tags), co][nz.org now validates as XHTML 1.1. Another step closer to global domination...

Comments

nick - 01/10/2003, 15:54 CST

with your inspiration and a removal of a lang attribute, i do too! i feel...the same.

alison - 01/11/2003, 22:53 CST

but why? it's still "text/html"

Shane - 01/12/2003, 12:36 CST

The XHTML 1.1 spec advises the use of the following MIME types:

a) application/xhtml+xml
b) application/xml
c) text/xml

Unfortunately, all versions of Internet Explorer on all platforms are unable to properly cope with these MIME types. Now, IE accounts for 90%+ of my traffic...

So, instead of serving this site up with different MIME type flavors - text/html to legacy browsers (Konqueror, Netscape 4, Opera, all versions of IE on all platforms), and application/xhtml+xml to Mozilla and it's derivatives - I decided to take the easy, 'no harm no foul' route until a specific MIME is 'mandated'.

Thanks for noticing and keeping me honest, though. ;)

alison - 01/12/2003, 17:37 CST

ahh cool. thanks for that info, i didn't know IE couldn't cope with the xhtml mime type.