[Mono-devel-list] XhtmlTextWriter

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> > Just for the record: we discussed this last night, and I do not believe
> > that we should use the XML writer to produce XHTML, given that it is
> > technically incorrect to return text/xml when a browser requests
> > text/html.
> I do not think this statement is true. Valid XHTML is a subset of valid
> HTML4, there is no reason that we can't just generate XHTML, which by
> definition valid HTML.

I forget the concrete errors, but things like <br/> are not valid
HTML4.  Google will reveal the critique.

> As stated by the XHTML spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#guidelines).
> The workarounds in there are not hard to implement. Even in the few
> cases where a few very broken browsers will have bugs exposed, I do not
> believe it is a problem. I mean, if a UA can not render valid HTML4,
> that is *not* our problem. At the *very* least, we should set up ASPX to
> generate valid XHTML for good browsers (moz and opera, maybe IE6).

If a browser requests text/html, it should return text/html, not
text/xml.  No matter how "its almost ok" you can get it.

It is *our* problem.  

Miguel.