Re: xmlns in HTML5 (was: Telecon Agenda- Thursday 1500 UTC) from Steven Pemberton on 2009-07-17 (public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org from July 2009)
discussion etre hixie et steven a propos de ce qu'est XHTML.Well, the author can say it is anything they want, but that doesn't change what it actually is. It is literally not possible to send XHTML5 as text/html, because as soon as you label it as text/html, you are stating "it is HTML".
I used to think that too, but then I realised that in the real world it is different. Browsers sniff, and media types are hard-wired into software, rather than being an extension point. You have to row with the oars you have got. As I said, I send documents with media type text/html, not because they are necessarily HTML, but because I want them in the browser. I agree that the document gets *processed* as HTML, but the document doesn't magically change type just because it gets sent with a certain media type.

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