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Why is it disallowed to send XHTML 1.1 documents as text/html?

April 26, 2017documents html send text XHTML

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Why is it disallowed to send XHTML 1.1 documents as text/html?

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XHTML 1.1 is pure XML, and only intended to be XML. It cannot reliably be sent to legacy browsers. Therefore XHTML 1.1 documents must be sent with an XML-related media type, such as application/xhtml+xml.