Re: Sanctioning the xhtml extension for use with application/xhtml+xm l

Ted Pibil <[email protected]> Tue, 15 Apr 2003 10:29:18 -0400
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On Monday 14 April 2003 22:18, Micah Dubinko wrote:
> I'd like to hear what folks here think about the use of the .xhtml file
> extension, with a fixed media type mapping to application/xthml+xml. Good?
> Bad? Does it break anything?

It depends on how much of the UA market you want to cut out. ;-)  Serving t=
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application/xhtml+xml media type is one issue.  The .xhtml file extension i=
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another.  If you try to do both, you will be limited to Gecko based UA's,=20
Amaya and Opera.  If you are  a purist, go for it.

I wrote this article[1] a couple of months ago and is very similar to Mark=
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Pilgrim's recent xml.com article[2].

[1] http://www.pibil.org/technology/writing/xhtml-media-type.html

[2] http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/03/19/dive-into-xml.html

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