Web-design in Fedora

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Sat May 6 21:07:44 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 15:52 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> The content type doesn't come from the document, it is set by the web server.
> 
> xhtml is xml and should have an xml content type. However that doesn't
> work with IE properly, so most people have the content type set to text/html
> which is incorrect but will work good enough for most purposes.
> 

Ah - you are correct. I remember now.
I was serving my pages as xml and had to change it for IE - and as a
result of changing it for IE - had to put the doctype string in so it
would validate/behave properly in firefox (such as the id attribute).

I guess you can tell I don't do this everyday.




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