On Sep 15, 2006, at 1:18 AM, Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen wrote:
David D. Kilzer wrote:
You should really read this web page if you're not sending xhtml as application/xhtml+xml: http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml Dave
I was writing a small web application recently, and I - naturally - served my XHTML 1.1 as the MIME type prescribed by the standard. However, I ran into two issues:
1) Internet Explorer 6 on windows does not recognise the MIME type, asking the user where to save it. 2) Using Safari - with both released and (then) trunk WebKit - cookies didn't work. I've filed this bug in radar.
So until the bugs are fixed WebKit, and IE7 sees widespread acceptance, I'd say the world isn't ready for application/xhtml+xml.
IE7 won't support XHTML either. I think the upshot is that you should make your content into proper HTML and serve it as text/html, if you want to serve it on the web. Regards, Maciej