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A step past broken crap

You should always serve XHTML as XHTML (to browsers that support it, of course). Serving text/html to a browser says 'hello, this is broken crap, please do your best with it'. XHTML is supposed to be a step past broken crap, so you should serve it as such.

(Sam Marshall on webdesign-l mailing list, talking about the recent XHTML mime type thread)

Posted by TjL on October 16, 2002 04:50 PM |

Comments

This is utter nonsense. The quality of a resource has nothing whatsoever to do with the MIME type. The poster obviously completely misunderstands what MIME types are, and what their scope is. I urge him to read up on the available documentation.

Posted by: Matthias | October 18, 2002 10:53 AM

I think just maybe he was using hyperbole for the purposes of humor.

Posted by: TjL | October 18, 2002 12:29 PM