[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #4466: Serve application/xhtml+xml if browser compliant

[WordPress Trac]

#4466: Serve application/xhtml+xml if browser compliant
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 Reporter:  werwin                        |        Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement                   |       Status:  closed   
 Priority:  normal                        |    Milestone:           
Component:  Template                      |      Version:  2.7      
 Severity:  normal                        |   Resolution:  wontfix  
 Keywords:  xhtml, application/xhtml+xml  |  
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Changes (by jacobsantos):

  * status:  reopened => closed
  * resolution:  => wontfix
  * component:  Optimization => Template
  * milestone:  2.9 =>

Comment:

 No, it is a theme specific option. The suggestion that maybe when IE6,
 IE7, and IE8 is dead is also web site specific. If you don't want to
 support IE browsers, then you can do it now. However, !WordPress will not
 handle it now or in the near future.

 Actually, you really need to look at that example function because it
 isn't going to work for IE. You need to check for IE before returning
 that.

 IE 9 or 10 won't be coming out for another 2 to 4 years, and there is
 nothing to suggest that those versions are going to support XHTML either.
 So what you have is a situation where IE 6, 7, and 8 do not support that
 MIME type. IE 9 is probably not going to either. However, who knows, if
 Microsoft continues its support for HTML5, it will eventually have to also
 add support for XHTML5. In that case, IE may add support for that MIME
 type.

 Even after that, you still have 3+ versions of IE that you'll need to
 support until the amount of users drops to a level you are fine with not
 supporting them any longer.

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