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  • Hendrik Maryns
    #1

    mime types in Apache and the validator

    Hi all,

    First of all, this is probably a little OT here, please point me to a
    better place if you deem that appropriate.

    My website (see sig) validates fine, but with one annoying warning:

    The document is being served with the text/html Mime Type which is not a
    registered media type for the XHTML 1.1 Document Type. The recommended
    media type for this document is: application/xhtml+xml

    The index file is called index.shtml since it uses some SSI. To tell
    this to the server, I include a little .htaccess file in the directory
    containing the following line:

    DirectoryIndex index.shtml

    I tried to fix the warning by adding the following:

    # AddType application/xhtml+xml shtml html

    But then the SSI no longer works, and Firefox shows the page with a
    white border around <body>. Same thing happens if I call it index.xhtml.

    Seems like this is a Firefox bug? What is the proper way to handle this?

    Cheers, H.
    --
    Hendrik Maryns
    http://tcl.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~hendrik/

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    • Andreas Prilop
      #2
      Re: mime types in Apache and the validator

      On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Hendrik Maryns wrote:
      First of all, this is probably a little OT here,
      please point me to a better place if you deem that appropriate.
      <news:comp.info systems.www.ser vers.unix>
      The document is being served with the text/html Mime Type which is not a
      registered media type for the XHTML 1.1 Document Type. The recommended media
      type for this document is: application/xhtml+xml
      Short answer:

      Do not use application/xhtml+xml and XHTML 1.1 on the web if you want
      to be read by everyone. You could do this for some testing etc.

      For publication on the web, use text/html with HTML 4 Strict or
      XHTML 1.0 Strict.

      --
      In memoriam Alan J. Flavell
      http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=author:Alan.J.Flavell

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        • Beauregard T. Shagnasty
          #3
          Re: mime types in Apache and the validator

          Hendrik Maryns wrote:
          The document is being served with the text/html Mime Type which is not
          a registered media type for the XHTML 1.1 Document Type.
          See this:
          http://tekrider.net/html/doctype.php

          The recommended media type for this document is: application/xhtml+xml
          ...and Internet Explorer users won't be able to use your page.

          --
          -bts
          -Friends don't let friends drive Windows

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            • Hendrik Maryns
              #4
              Re: mime types in Apache and the validator

              Beauregard T. Shagnasty schreef:
              Hendrik Maryns wrote:
              >
              >The document is being served with the text/html Mime Type which is not
              >a registered media type for the XHTML 1.1 Document Type.
              >
              See this:
              http://tekrider.net/html/doctype.php

              >
              >The recommended media type for this document is: application/xhtml+xml
              >
              ..and Internet Explorer users won't be able to use your page.
              Thanks both. That’s what I suspected. I’ll live with the warning until
              the world gets better (i.e. Firefox displays it properly and IE displays
              it at all).

              Cheers, H.
              --
              Hendrik Maryns
              http://tcl.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~hendrik/

              =============== ===
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              http://aouw.org

              Ask smart questions, get good answers:
              How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
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