XHTML support?

[kaeli]

Hey all,

Does anyone know if all the newer browsers support XHTML? My main target is
IE6/NN6+(firefox/mozilla/etc), but I'd like to know if Safari, Opera,
Konqueror, and other browsers also support it.
Anyone know of any major compatibility problems with XHTML?
How do older browsers, such as Netscape 4, react to the doctype?

TIA

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[Isofarro]

Rijk van Geijtenbeek wrote:

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 18:59:51 +0000 (UTC), Jukka K. Korpela
<jk******@cs.tu t.fi> wrote:

In a sense. Some people might say it has too good support: it does not
recognize predefined entities like &auml; (this is permitted by XHTML
rules), and it refuses to display the page at all if there is a single
"well-formedness" error like missing end tag.

The wellformedness issue is mandated by the XML specs; MSIE and Mozilla
also honor it.

In this regard, I tend to agree with Mark Pilgrim's point that enforcing
well-formedness in the browser is the wrong place to do it. The end result
is that the visitor is prevented from retrieving the content - albeit
broken.

I understand the reasoning behind well-formedness in XML and its error
handling - but in this regard, there needs to be something better / earlier
that does this brokenness testing.
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[Tim]

Rijk van Geijtenbeek wrote:

The wellformedness issue is mandated by the XML specs; MSIE and Mozilla
also honor it.

Isofarro <sp*******@spam detector.co.uk> posted:
In this regard, I tend to agree with Mark Pilgrim's point that enforcing
well-formedness in the browser is the wrong place to do it. The end result
is that the visitor is prevented from retrieving the content - albeit
broken.

I understand the reasoning behind well-formedness in XML and its error
handling - but in this regard, there needs to be something better / earlier
that does this brokenness testing.

But, if all the browsers behave like that, it does.

If the author immediately sees that their data is broken (assuming that do
at least try looking at it in a browser), they should fix it there and
then. Compare that to authors using a browser which shows anything
withouth protest. If all they do is check it in that browser and declare
that "it works for me", many will do nothing more to check that it also
works for you.

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