On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Jim Driscoll <Jim.Driscoll@sun.com> wrote:
Oh, THAT's what he meant.  He tried to describe the problem to me, but our discussion got cut off.  I've even run into this with demos - it's actually a pretty big deal, I think.

+1
 

Fortunately, the declaration is optional, as I understand the XML standard.

Right, but from what I understand from Max, tooling is adding it aggressively and it becomes a fight between developer and tool to leave it off. He could probably speak to this more.
 

As for "some browsers", let's just name it:  IE.  The XML declaration triggers their "I don't care about your mime-type, I know better than you" code.  Though it wouldn't be surprising if it triggered some quirks-mode in other browsers.

Yep, pretty much.

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