On 9/11/05, Wim De Smet <kromagg@gmail.com> wrote:
I will not try arguing the point. While I believe that there is a very good reason to want to do this from a user perspective (eg. you can migrate to xhtml now and not 10 years from now) I also understand there are plenty reasons not to. You probably have a much clearer point of view on this. Though the article you linked lacked one reason to use xhtml, namely it's really clean to write. :-)
While it may be, if you try to integrate it into other technologies such as Javascript, the article points out you have a headache and a half waiting to happen. I've read it. The service I oversee is sticking with HTML 4.01.
I've been thinking about UA parsing to determine doctype but I've always considered UA parsing pure evil so will probably not do that. Have I completely missed it or is there indeed no standard way for a webserver/site to determine browser capabilities?
Other than what the web browser asks for in terms of MIME types, not really. -- Kelly "STrRedWolf" Price http://strredwolf.furrynet.com