Re: Propose changing MIME types for documents for 1.3 in new framework

["Chris Travers" <..hidden..>]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 9:08 AM, John Locke <..hidden..> wrote:
> Hi, Chris,
>
> As we discussed in IRC, I think this is a bad idea to do in a blanket
> way--because it will make supporting IE much more challenging, and I
> don't see what we gain. I think it's great to send an XHTML doctype, but
> think we should at least make it easy to support alternative templates
> that can send a regular text/html mime type.
>
> I've got a proposal along these lines coming up in my next mail...

Maybe the HTML backend should review the DOCTYPE tag from the template
and determine an appropriate MIME type?  Later, if we need to, we can
add logic for UA handling if ths becomes a problem.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers

>
> Cheers,
>
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>
> Chris Travers wrote:
>> Since the new framework uses XHTML, I am going to suggest sending a
>> MIME type of application/xhtml+xml since this is more flexible than
>> text/html in how it is parsed by the browser.  Any objections?
>>
>> Best Wishes,
>> Chris Travers
>>
>> ----
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