We still have some work to do on the XHTML mime type issue, and we have to discover once and for all whether it's practical to use it. Proceed thus:
- Remove the meta tag to get a "pure"
application/xml+xhtml site, and test on various browsers. Make notes of what works and what doesn't.
- Replace the meta tags, and change the sitemap to serve pages as
xhtml11_compat for all browsers (not just IE, as is currently the case). (xhtml11_compat is my serializer for XHTML 1.1 served as text/html.) Test again, and note the results.
- If we find that things generally work (especially if they work in Safari and Opera), we should probably give up on the use of
application/xml+xhtml for the moment, unfortunate though this would be. We can always change this later when browsers become more reliable in this regard. Meanwhile, we need a working site. The site can still make use of proper DOM methods (where they're supported) instead of innerHTML.
Once we have a clear idea of what's happening, document it to death, and then set up a system which works for all our core browsers.
