XHTML MIME Types note

[David Dorward-3]

I see the new version of http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/ has
been published.

Unfortunately, due to being caught up with various minor crises, I
didn't find time to raise formal comments on some of the things in the
latest version before it got out of draft.

So, informally then - could someone explain how the content of iframe
elements is considered different in HTML and XHTML documents? It must be
pretty significant since the content of the element is the only way to
provide alternative content for user agents which don't support or have
frames disabled.

On the same note - how does having JavaScript turned off change the way
the content of the element is evaluated?

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David Dorward                               <http://dorward.me.uk/>

[Steven Pemberton-3]

Hello David,

Thanks for your comments.

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:45:30 +0100, David Dorward <david@...>  
wrote:

> I see the new version of http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/ has
> been published.
>
> Unfortunately, due to being caught up with various minor crises, I
> didn't find time to raise formal comments on some of the things in the
> latest version before it got out of draft.
>
> So, informally then - could someone explain how the content of iframe
> elements is considered different in HTML and XHTML documents? It must be
> pretty significant since the content of the element is the only way to
> provide alternative content for user agents which don't support or have
> frames disabled.
>
> On the same note - how does having JavaScript turned off change the way
> the content of the element is evaluated?

These additions were suggested by Simon Pieters of Opera.

His message that explains them is here:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xhtml2/2008Oct/0027

I hope this helps.

Best wishes,

Steven Pemberton
For the XHTML WG