Last Updated: $Date: 2002/11/07 06:11:14 $
media type | text/html | application/xhtml+xml | text/xml | application/xml |
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xml-stylesheet PI and link | recognized as HTML | 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 | recognized as XHTML, but the type selector in style sheets matched case-insensitively |
link only | recognized as HTML | recognized as XHTML, linked style sheet was not recognized | recognized as XHTML, linked style sheet was not recognized | recognized as XHTML, linked style sheet was not recognized |
xml-stylesheet PI only | recognized as HTML, xml-stylesheet PI was not recognized | 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 | recognized as XHTML, but the type selector in style sheets matched case-insensitively |
without xmlns | recognized as HTML | recognized as XML, XHTML-specific semantics were not recognized but inline style (incorrectly) worked | recognized as XML, XHTML-specific semantics were not recognized but inline style (incorrectly) worked | recognized as XML, XHTML-specific semantics were not recognized but inline style (incorrectly) worked |
without DOCTYPE | recognized as HTML | 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 | recognized as XHTML, but the type selector in style sheets matched case-insensitively |
without DOCTYPE and xmlns | recognized as HTML | recognized as XML, XHTML-specific semantics were not recognized but inline style (incorrectly) worked | recognized as XML, XHTML-specific semantics were not recognized but inline style (incorrectly) worked | recognized as XML, XHTML-specific semantics were not recognized but inline style (incorrectly) worked |
Broken XHTML | recognized as HTML, well-formedness error was not checked | failed correctly | failed correctly | failed correctly |
HTML 4 | recognized as HTML | failed correctly | failed correctly | failed correctly |