From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:45:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Removes the <?xml?> declaration from gitweb.pl
Message-ID: <200610120745.00909.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <egjnk5$bpn$2@sea.gmane.org>

onsdag 11 oktober 2006 23:27 skrev Jakub Narebski:
> Pazu wrote:
> > The XML declaration forces IE6 into quirks mode, breaking our
> > nice standards compliant stylesheet.
>
> But isn't it _required_ by XML/XHTML?

For pure XML document it is required, but not for XHTML, unless the encoding 
is something other than UTF-8 or (shudder) UTF-16. W3C recommends it though.

-- robin