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Re: Why IE still doesnt support XHTML?

From: Martin Honnen <mahotrash@-----.-->
To: NULL
Date: 4/5/2005 2:28:00 PM

Fahad Ashfaque wrote:


> I've been having problem dealing with IE 6 when serving XHTML Document, 
> could anyone please tell me why microsoft is denying and not making the IE to 
> support XHTML. Has Microsoft any problem making the IE like that?.
> 
> I am sending the MIME Type application/xhtml+xml when serving the xhtml 
> document but IE popup the file download dialog.

It is well-known that neither IE 6 nor earlier versions support 
application/xhtml+xml. If you really think you need to use XHTML and 
serve it to IE then you need to serve XHTML 1.0 as text/html and make 
sure you follow the rules lined out in
   <http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#guidelines>
But that trouble is not worth it, simply stick with HTML 4.01 which is 
as semantically rich as XHTML 1.0 and is the proper document type to be 
served as text/html to existing browsers.
See also
   <http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml>


-- 

	Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
	http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/


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