Web page served as application/xhtml+xml

>Eric Lindsay wrote:
>> It is true with a URL like http://carlylegardensgnome.com/ that IE will
>> not display it, and offer to download. However in my tests with IE6 and
>> IE7, it appears each of these will display the page if the URL is in the
>> form http://carlylegardensgnome.com/index.html
>>
>You are just witnessing how IE incorrectly uses file extension rather
>than content type to identify content. It won't if your page include
>XHTML features. Insert a SVG or some MathXML and see what happens. Just
>don't go beyond the HTML subset...

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Guy Macon <http://www.GuyMacon.com/> wrote:

> Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> >Eric Lindsay wrote:
> >> It is true with a URL like http://carlylegardensgnome.com/ that IE will
> >> not display it, and offer to download. However in my tests with IE6 and
> >> IE7, it appears each of these will display the page if the URL is in the
> >> form http://carlylegardensgnome.com/index.html
> >>
> >You are just witnessing how IE incorrectly uses file extension rather
> >than content type to identify content. It won't if your page include
> >XHTML features. Insert a SVG or some MathXML and see what happens. Just
> >don't go beyond the HTML subset...
>
> I just tried it and http://carlylegardensgnome.com/index.html brought
> up the usual "do you want to download" form. IE 6.0.2800.1106 SP1
> running on Windows 2000 Advanced Server, .html file association set
> to Notepad, as is often recommended for high security systems (IE works
> fine, but if you click on a file in Windows Explorer with a .html
> extension, you get it in notepad).

> However in my tests with IE6 and
> IE7, it appears each of these will display the page if the URL is in the
> form http://carlylegardensgnome.com/index.html

>
> > How much trouble do you really encounter when you serve web pages as
> > application/xhtml+xml?
>
> IE shows a blank page.

>
> Current guesstimates have 80%+ of web users using IE - isn't the fact
> that the huge majority of the web-using public won't see your site
> trouble enough, without asking for more? :-)

> Catering to IE is getting up my nose more and more.