Re: (Re: gitweb not friendly to firefox?) and unusable in the lynx

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mar 3, 2007, 13:29 UTC
Message-ID: <7v3b4mbglp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.0.82.0703022223060.29426@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

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> On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>
>> By "conservatively" it means that it uses 'application/xhtml+xml' only when
>> client explicitly claims that it accepts its, and it is not due to for
>> example */* accept globbing.
>> 
>> So if lynx isn't working, it is its damn fault...
>
> I absolutely don't care.
>
> I use lynx, and lynx worked perfectly fine before.  So it is not lynx 
> that broke it.  Please fix gitweb.

I think the real question is if gitweb output need to be XHTML. If everybody's browser is happier with text/html and we do not have to use things only in xhtml, sending text/html out (both as content-type and the actual contents) feels like the right thing to do from compatibility point of view.