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| author | goodger <goodger@929543f6-e4f2-0310-98a6-ba3bd3dd1d04> | 2005-08-26 14:29:20 +0000 |
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| committer | goodger <goodger@929543f6-e4f2-0310-98a6-ba3bd3dd1d04> | 2005-08-26 14:29:20 +0000 |
| commit | 73c906fee8239cec187994cf96b13cb72be250a9 (patch) | |
| tree | 5411e17245c57f4e422a1c43eaa5a0ad1684ac9c /docutils/FAQ.txt | |
| parent | ccd3e7fb389d00514b9d515d4dbc805d4b5ea173 (diff) | |
| download | docutils-73c906fee8239cec187994cf96b13cb72be250a9.tar.gz | |
added entry on serving XHTML as "Content-type: text/html"
git-svn-id: http://svn.code.sf.net/p/docutils/code/trunk@3835 929543f6-e4f2-0310-98a6-ba3bd3dd1d04
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diff --git a/docutils/FAQ.txt b/docutils/FAQ.txt index c3504e74a..80895e633 100644 --- a/docutils/FAQ.txt +++ b/docutils/FAQ.txt @@ -902,6 +902,38 @@ returns a dictionary containing an 'html_body_' entry. docs/api/publisher.html#html-body +Why is the Docutils XHTML served as "Content-type: text/html"? +-------------------------------------------------------------- + +Full question: + + Docutils' HTML output looks like XHTML and is advertised as such:: + + <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> + <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/TR/xht ml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> + + But this is followed by:: + + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> + + Shouldn't this be "application/xhtml+xml" instead of "text/html"? + +In a perfect web, the Docutils XHTML output would be 100% strict +XHTML. But it's not a perfect web, and a major source of imperfection +is Internet Explorer. Despite it's drawbacks, IE still represents the +majority of web browsers, and cannot be ignored. + +Short answer: if we didn't serve XHTML as "text/html" (which is a +perfectly valid thing to do), it couldn't be viewed in Internet +Explorer. + +Long answer: see the `"Criticisms of Internet Explorer" Wikipedia +entry <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticisms_of_Internet_Explorer#XHTML>`__. + +(Thanks to Martin F. Krafft, Robert Kern and Michael Foord.) + + Python Source Reader ==================== |