On 19.8.2011 9:50, Jesper Tverskov wrote:
> All major browsers today support mimetype "application/xhtml+xml":
> IE9+, Safari, Firefox, Opera, Chrome. They all render XML webpages
> incrementally. Very nice.
>
> They all, except IE9, show an error message if there is a well-formedness error.
>
> But IE9 switches to HTML parsing instead of showing an error message!
No, IE9 stops processing and renders content before the first error.
> Question. IE9's behavior is in my opinion in opposition to what the
> spec demands.
AFAIK no specification ever prohibited web-browser from trying to fix
broken XHTML by using different more lenient parser.
> I find it confusing but could
> it be the way forward to get "application/xhtml+xml" more widely
> adopted?
Maybe, but realistically what is advantage of serving web page as
application/xhtml+xml instead of text/html? Try to forget to XML bias
which most of xml-dev subscribers probably have. ;-)
Jirka
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