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  1. 3 Sep 2008

    Google Chrome prefers XHTML

    written by Sergio Fernández at 08h53

    The blogosphere is restless about Chrome, the new open source browser developed by Google. But I´m not going to discuss its software design, its performance or its usability, there are many people talking about it. I´ll talk about a technical detail: Google Chrome prefers XHTML (application/xhtml+xml) instead the classic HTML (text/html).

    How to know it? As probably you know in HTTP there is a header called Accept to specify the format types which are acceptable. Requesting this service developed by Richard Cyganiak with Chrome, we can get the value of that header:

    text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,
text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5

    Good to know it… Microsoft should learn.