mime types in Apache and the validator

Hi all,

First of all, this is probably a little OT here, please point me to a
better place if you deem that appropriate.

My website (see sig) validates fine, but with one annoying warning:

The document is being served with the text/html Mime Type which is not a
registered media type for the XHTML 1.1 Document Type. The recommended
media type for this document is: application/xhtml+xml

The index file is called index.shtml since it uses some SSI. To tell
this to the server, I include a little .htaccess file in the directory
containing the following line:

DirectoryIndex index.shtml

I tried to fix the warning by adding the following:

# AddType application/xhtml+xml shtml html

But then the SSI no longer works, and Firefox shows the page with a
white border around <body>. Same thing happens if I call it index.xhtml.

Seems like this is a Firefox bug? What is the proper way to handle this?

Cheers, H.
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Andreas Prilop

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June 27th, 2008
07:16 PM
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Re: mime types in Apache and the validator

On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Hendrik Maryns wrote:

Quote:

First of all, this is probably a little OT here,
please point me to a better place if you deem that appropriate.

<news:comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix>

Quote:

The document is being served with the text/html Mime Type which is not a
registered media type for the XHTML 1.1 Document Type. The recommended media
type for this document is: application/xhtml+xml

Short answer:

Do not use application/xhtml+xml and XHTML 1.1 on the web if you want
to be read by everyone. You could do this for some testing etc.

For publication on the web, use text/html with HTML 4 Strict or
XHTML 1.0 Strict.

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Beauregard T. Shagnasty

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June 27th, 2008
07:16 PM
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Re: mime types in Apache and the validator

Hendrik Maryns wrote:

Quote:

The document is being served with the text/html Mime Type which is not
a registered media type for the XHTML 1.1 Document Type.

See this:
http://tekrider.net/html/doctype.php

Quote:

The recommended media type for this document is: application/xhtml+xml

...and Internet Explorer users won't be able to use your page.

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Hendrik Maryns

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June 27th, 2008
07:16 PM
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Re: mime types in Apache and the validator

Beauregard T. Shagnasty schreef:

Quote:

Hendrik Maryns wrote:
>

Quote:

>The document is being served with the text/html Mime Type which is not
>a registered media type for the XHTML 1.1 Document Type.

>
See this:
http://tekrider.net/html/doctype.php
>

Quote:

>The recommended media type for this document is: application/xhtml+xml

>
..and Internet Explorer users won't be able to use your page.

Thanks both. That’s what I suspected. I’ll live with the warning until
the world gets better (i.e. Firefox displays it properly and IE displays
it at all).

Cheers, H.
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