From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 13:29:22 GMT Subject: Re: (Re: gitweb not friendly to firefox?) and unusable in the lynx Message-ID: <7v3b4mbglp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Nicolas Pitre writes: > 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.