I prefer using the XHTML mime type for pages, instead of HTML, and serve a different mime type to IE, but when I do this, should I use XML DOM or HTML DOM?
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Either you build your page as XHTML or as HTML, you should not choose the mime type independent of the structure of your page. What do you mean with XML/HTML DOM? With the DOM you can access certain elements (nodes) in a document, it is not something different for XHTML and HTML.– martinstoeckliMay 10, 2012 at 11:00
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Do you mean DOCTYPE or do you really mean mime type? And, why do you prefer sending html to IE and xhtml to everyone else? Seems like an unnecessary complication.
As a side note, why would anyone whose audience is the general public prefer serving XHTML over HTML? I should probably ask that in another thread if I really want an answer...