A question for you pros....

Which DOCTYPE should I be shooting for? The two strictest seem to be XHTML 1.1 and XHTML 1.0 Strict. Is one of them more compatable or something?

Thanks,

Snib

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Expanding on this, I read online that the W3C "strongly recommends" that XHTML 1.1 is served as "application/xhtml+xml". XHTML 1.0 "may" be text/html or application/xhtml+xml. It seems XHTML 2.0 must be served as application/xhtml+xml (when it comes out). The problem with application/xhtml+xml is, I've heard, that Internet Explorer doesn't know what to do with application/xhtml+xml, and instead of displaying it, tries to download it; not a problem for me (I said goodbye (and good riddance) to IE long ago :-) ) but with all the IE users out there, I'd be seriously thinning the amount of users coming to my website.

Can anyone confirm this or add to it?

Thanks,

Snib

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Hi Snib,

This is correct, IE doesn't process the "application/xhtml+xml" content type (thanks Bill).

I think many people are setting the content type to "application/xhtml+xml" only if a browser explicitly specifies in HTTP_ACCEPT that it can take it and otherwise just returning "text/html".

Best regards,

Chris