XHTML media type test - results: Netscape Browser 8.0.1 (using IE as the default rendering engine)

Last Updated: $Date: 2005/06/16 14:48:09 $

Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/msword, */*

media type text/html application/xhtml+xml *1 text/xml *2 application/xml *2
xml-stylesheet PI and link recognized as HTML recognized as XHTML showed blank page showed blank page
link only recognized as HTML recognized as XHTML showed blank page showed blank page
xml-stylesheet PI only recognized as HTML, xml-stylesheet PI was not recognized recognized as XHTML showed blank page showed blank page
without xmlns recognized as HTML recognized as XML, XHTML-specific semantics were not recognized showed blank page showed blank page
without DOCTYPE recognized as HTML recognized as XHTML showed blank page showed blank page
without DOCTYPE and xmlns recognized as HTML recognized as XML, XHTML-specific semantics were not recognized showed blank page showed blank page
Broken XHTML recognized as HTML, well-formedness error was not detected failed correctly showed blank page showed blank page
HTML 4 recognized as HTML failed correctly showed blank page showed blank page

Notes

*1 In this case Netscape 8 actually uses Gecko even if IE is set as the default rendering engine.

*2 It is reported that after installing Netscape 8 the XML rendering capabilities of Internet Explorer no longer work.


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