[TAP5-263] Tapestry should produce XML-style output (not SGML) even for the text/html content type, for best compatibility with browsers

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.0.16
• Fix Version/s: 5.0.16
• Component/s: tapestry-core
• Assignee: Howard Lewis Ship
• Reporter: Francois Armand
• Created: 13/Oct/08 09:00
• Updated: 23/Nov/08 05:50
• Resolved: 05/Nov/08 00:00

Description

Tapestry 5 has a great way to handle markup renderer, based on the doctype and the contenttype of the page, but it appears that producing XHTML output that can be understood by IE is difficult .

XHTML output requires to have both a correct XHTML DOCTYPE and a correct content type (so, no "text/html" but a "application/xml+html"),
BUT IE has a known, old bug that make it don't understand "applciation/xml+html" content type, see for example : http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/09/15/467901.aspx

So, there is a workaround in the T5-HowTos : http://wiki.apache.org/tapestry/Tapestry5HowToXhtml
Nonetheless, it would be great if by default, T5 was able to render valid XHTML even with "text/html" content-type.