Internet Explorer 7 may be recent, but I wouldn't call it modern. The XHTML issue is only the tip of the iceberg. Once you start using "modern" standards (almost everything created after 1998; CSS 2, PNGs with alpha channels, transparency in general, JavaScript event handlers, etc etc) you'll run into all kinds of problems that require very specific IE kludges if they can be solved at all.

Anyway, I mainly serve up HTML 4.01 strict, but when I do go for XHTML I usually just send it as text/html, since it's often the easiest way to get it to work "everywhere". YMMV. Is there any specific reason you want to go for XHTML at all?

"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"

In reply to Re: OT: How do you serve up XHTML? by Joost
in thread OT: How do you serve up XHTML? by wfsp

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