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On 01/01/06, Ben Goodger <goodgerster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I serve XHTML as whatever my Apache installation is configured to send .php > files as, but it works just fine as it has appropriate doctypes etc. > Furthermore, there is no need for browsers to "start" to support it > properly: it's coming up to five years old, and Firefox and IE6 support it > flawlessly, as far as I can tell from my site. Unless you're serving it as application/html+xml (which IE6 doesn't support) you're serving it as text/html - and if you do serve it like that, Firefox treats it as tag soup, instead of XML, so you're not really getting any benefit. You can serve HTML 4.01, with a doctype and browsers will treat it in standard compliant mode. I use a lot of XHTML on my sites, but it doesn't offer any benefit over HTML 4.01. -- Matt Lee CNUK Media Foundation - http://cnuk.org/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html