[WEB4LIB] RE: Moving from HTML4.01 to XML

[Pons, Lisa (ponslm)]

I'm wondering though: if IE ever implements this: wont he be ready? Just
switch out his mime content type and he is ready? I know, IF IE implements
it... 

Just want to hear thoughts.


Lisa Pons-Haitz

Webmaster
University Libraries
University of Cincinnati
lisa.pons at uc.edu
(513)556-1431

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Dowling [mailto:tdowling at ohiolink.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 4:51 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Moving from HTML4.01 to XML
> 
> 
> Drew, Bill wrote:
> 
> >I am using Dreamweaver 4.0.  I am also using templates.  I have just
> >about got my template converted to XHTML.  I am wondering about IE
> >though.  Will converting to XHTML cause problems in my displays?
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> I hope I wasn't too oblique in my reference to IE's problem.
> 
> The preferred MIME content type for XHTML is "application/xhtml+xml", 
> which IE fails to handle.  For XHTML 1.0, you may use 
> "text/html", which 
> IE is happy to use, but more modern browsers look for the 
> content type 
> to decide whether they should turn on their state of the art XML 
> parsers, so they'll continue to parse "text/html" documents 
> as plain old 
> HTML.  In other words, IE support will require you to dumb down the 
> XHTML you serve, and everyone will treat it the way they 
> currently treat 
> HTML.
> 
> If you weren't really counting on all the XML bells and 
> whistles anyway, 
> you haven't lost anything, but that goes back to the question 
> of why you 
> want to move to XHTML in the first place.
> 
> 
> BTW, there are some implications for inline stylesheets and scripts 
> within XHTML.  That may be the biggest potential for syntax problems 
> when and if you convert.  See for example 
> <http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2003/xhtml-style-script/>.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Thomas Dowling
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu
>