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From: Susan R. Grossman
Date: Oct 6, 2004 11:59AM

I beleive he's referring to the mime type (doctype declaration) for
xhtml 1.1 xhtml 1.0 can be served as text/html., but xhtml 1.1 can't
be served up as text/html. but must be application/xhtml+xml and IE
doesn't support application/xhtml+xml

Susan



Jared Smith wrote:

>>but real XHTML won't be suitable for the WWW for years (since IE
>>does not support real XHTML).
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>Could you please explain why? IE is far from perfect, but it certainly
>seems to support XHTML to me (at least in recent IE versions). It may not
>have the best support for CSS styling of XHTML content, but I don't
>see any cases where true, standards-based XHTML breaks in IE.
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>Jared Smith
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