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

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#4466: Serve application/xhtml+xml if browser compliant
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 Reporter:  werwin                        |        Owner:  anonymous   
     Type:  enhancement                   |       Status:  new         
 Priority:  low                           |    Milestone:  2.4 (future)
Component:  Optimization                  |      Version:  2.2.1       
 Severity:  minor                         |   Resolution:              
 Keywords:  xhtml, application/xhtml+xml  |  
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Changes (by Otto42):

  * milestone:  2.3 (trunk) => 2.4 (future)

Comment:

 As we discussed on wp-hackers, changing to application/xhtml+xml affects
 quite a bit. It's quite likely that most Wordpress blogs and/or themes
 and/or plugins are wholly incompatible with a mime type of
 application/xhtml+xml.

 Serving as application/xhtml+xml breaks virtually all javascripts, for
 example.

 While the idea is good, and code should be added to prepare for this sort
 of thing, it is premature to actually be serving up pages as
 application/xhtml+xml. All the kinks in the various javascript codes has
 to be worked out, for one thing. And even then, backwards compatibility
 needs to be addressed, since you're not going to be able to update every
 plugin/theme.

 I say to only add code to *allow* people to change that sort of thing, and
 start making the codebase compatible with it, but by the time you actually
 get there, IE will finally support application/xhtml+xml as well. ;)

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