[xmonad] Home page redesign

[Jesús Guerrero]

Hello,

> When I say that XHTML is not supported by IE, I specifically mean, if
> you serve XHTML with the Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml, it will
> be completely unviewable in any version of IE. (It turns out that
> these days, konqueror, lynx, opera, safari, and firefox all work fine,
> so only IE is busted).
> 
> [Note: I hope you find the rest of this message informative and
> helpful. Reading it over, I think it sounds a bit like an attack --
> which it is not supposed to be. So, be sure to read it in a happy,
> pleasant, and helpful tone. And, also, I could be wrong about some of
> this stuff -- it is hard to fine accurate information on the net about
> it.]

No problem. I asked for it, and I am more than glad that you took the time
to explain it to me. I could never consider it in a harsh way :)

> The reason your sites work is because you are using the Content-Type
> text/html, and the browsers are doing their darnest to figure out how
> to render the code using their HTML engines.

So, it turns out that it's my server. Nice to know. I will investigate it
further.

> According to the w3c, you *should not* serve XHTML 1.1 Strict with the text/html http header:

Yep, we agree in that. The problem is that I have been serving the wrong mime
type without noticing it.

> Additionally, your homepage fails to validate:
> 
> http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fjesgue.homelinux.org%2Fyobonobo%2F&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0

Due to live editing. No problem there, it will validate and break lots of times
until it's done.

> If you were to configure your server to properly serve as
> application/xhtml+xml, then IE users would not be able to view the
> page.

I am not particularly inclined to migrate to html to fix something that I
did not break (it's IE's fault). But I suppose I will have to consider the pros
and cons.  

> So, they question is, what benefit are you hoping to get by serving
> (invalid) xhtml as text/html?

None. As I said, I thought I was serving xhtml. Otherwise I wouldn't have done
it. Again, thanks for all the insight and wisdom. It's been helpful.

I keep an eye on the new design of the xmonad site :)

Cheers.
-- 
Jesús Guerrero <i92guboj at terra.es>
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