[whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5
Martin Atkins
mart at degeneration.co.uk
Mon Dec 4 11:16:54 PST 2006
Elliotte Harold wrote:
>
> What you keep missing is, it's not just about browsers. Not all clients
> are classic web browsers. The same documents are sent to many different
> kinds of clients that do many different things. I need to pass
> well-formed XML to my non-browser tools, and readable HTML to classic
> browsers.
>
> That means I have to send text/html to browsers (because that's the only
> thing they understand) and let my clients ignore that hint.
>
Isn't this what the "Accept:" header is for?
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