Henry Gough-Cooper wrote:
> It seems that for some reason Windows Internet Explorer is unable to
> recognize the BLITON files
"Most web browsers have mature support for all of the possible XHTML media
types. The notable exception is Internet Explorer by Microsoft; rather than
rendering application/xhtml+xml content, a dialog box invites the user to
save the content to disk instead. Both Internet Explorer 7 (released in
2006) and the second beta version of Internet Explorer 8 (released in August
2008) exhibit this behavior, and it is unclear whether this will be resolved
in a future release. As long as this remains the case, most web developers
avoid using XHTML that isn't HTML-compatible, so advantages of XML such as
namespaces, faster parsing and smaller-footprint browsers do not benefit the
user. Microsoft developer Chris Wilson explained in 2005 that IE7's
priorities were improved security and CSS support, and that proper XHTML
support would be difficult to graft onto IE's compatibility-oriented HTML
parser."
Wikipedia.
John Briggs
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