[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #8996: Serve application/xhtml+xml if browser, theme and plugins are compliant

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#8996: Serve application/xhtml+xml if browser, theme and plugins are compliant
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 Reporter:  sampablokuper  |       Owner:  anonymous   
     Type:  enhancement    |      Status:  new         
 Priority:  normal         |   Milestone:  2.9         
Component:  Template       |     Version:  2.7         
 Severity:  normal         |    Keywords:  dev-feedback
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Comment(by sampablokuper):

 Replying to [comment:4 Denis-de-Bernardy]:
 > sending the "correct" header serves absolutely no purpose.

 [http://hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml Really?]

 > at the very best, you'll get hapless users in the forum saying firefox
 is refusing to load their site, and it'll turn out that it's because
 tinymce, wpautop, or some funky code in a text widget happens to have
 output some ill-formatted html.

 I'd say that's at the very *worst*; the best would be that it all works as
 it should :)

 Of course, to avoid the worst happening, scrutiny is required. One of the
 nice things about serving as application/xhtml+xml is that bugs that might
 only have been spotted months or years down the line normally, suddenly
 become visible, making scrutiny easy. As long as the devs are testing
 their new code in XHTML compatible browsers, it's pretty unlikely that any
 such errors would slip through the net.

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