Last Updated: $Date: 2002/07/11 18:02:23 $
media type | text/html | application/xhtml+xml | text/xml | application/xml |
---|---|---|---|---|
xml-stylesheet PI and link | recognized as HTML | recognized as XHTML | recognized as XHTML, but the type selector in style sheets matched (somewhat) case-insensitively and inline style didn't work | recognized as XHTML, but the type selector in style sheets matched (somewhat) case-insensitively and inline style didn't work |
link only | recognized as HTML | recognized as XHTML | recognized as XHTML, but the type selector in style sheets matched case-insensitively | recognized as XHTML, but the type selector in style sheets matched case-insensitively |
xml-stylesheet PI only | recognized as HTML, xml-stylesheet PI was not recognized | recognized as XHTML | recognized as XHTML, but the type selector in style sheets matched (somewhat) case-insensitively and inline style didn't work | recognized as XHTML, but the type selector in style sheets matched (somewhat) case-insensitively and inline style didn't work |
without xmlns | recognized as HTML | recognized as XML, XHTML-specific semantics were not recognized | recognized as XML, XHTML-specific semantics were not recognized | recognized as XML, XHTML-specific semantics were not recognized |
without DOCTYPE | recognized as HTML | recognized as XHTML | recognized as XHTML, but the type selector in style sheets matched (somewhat) case-insensitively and inline style didn't work | recognized as XHTML, but the type selector in style sheets matched (somewhat) case-insensitively and inline style didn't work |
without DOCTYPE and xmlns | recognized as HTML | recognized as XML, XHTML-specific semantics were not recognized | recognized as XML, XHTML-specific semantics were not recognized | recognized as XML, XHTML-specific semantics were not recognized |
Broken XHTML | recognized as HTML, well-formedness error was not checked | failed correctly | failed correctly (Windows 2000) / reported a bunch of critical errors in the logger window, and showed blank page (Windows XP) | failed correctly (Windows 2000) / reported a bunch of critical errors in the logger window, and showed blank page (Windows XP) |
HTML 4 | recognized as HTML | failed correctly | reported a bunch of critical errors in the logger window, but displayed text contents | reported a bunch of critical errors in the logger window, but displayed text contents |