[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Haddock version 2.8.0

[John Millikin]

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 20:39, Albert Y. C. Lai <trebla at vex.net> wrote:
> In theory, what does file extension matter? Media type is the dictator. The
> normative Section 5.1 permits the choice of application/xhtml+xml or
> text/html. While the latter entails extra requirements in the informative
> Appendix C, as far as I can see (after all IDs are repaired) they are all
> met.
>
> In a cunning combination of theory and practice in our reality, the file
> extension .html implies the media type text/html unless the server specifies
> otherwise. But since text/html is allowed in theory, so is .html allowed in
> practice. Indeed, Internet Explorer plays along just fine with text/html; it
> stops only when you claim application/xhtml+xml. For example
> http://www.vex.net/~trebla/xhtml10.html works.
>
> This is a correct use of xhtml 1.0, and I fully endorse it.

It's not correct. Here's the exact same XHTML document (verify by
viewing the source), served with different mimetypes:

http://ianen.org/temp/inline-svg.html
http://ianen.org/temp/inline-svg.xhtml

Notice that the version served as HTML does not render properly. This
is because the browser is treating it as HTML with an unknown doctype,
not as XHTML.

I'm not debating that it's *possible* to serve HTML with an XHTML
mimetype and still see something rendered to the screen. Hundreds of
thousands of sites do so every day. But to call this XHTML is absurd.