How to serv xHTML documents?

[Moldarin]

Do I serv xHTML documents as <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8" /> or <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8" />?

[NogDog]

W3C recommends "application/xhtml+xml", but my understanding is that not all browsers recognize that yet, so it's safer to still use "text/html".

[felgall]

Does IE7 understand "application/xhtml+xml" or are we still going to be stuck with "text/html" until IE dies?

[NogDog]

Yet another reason I stick with HTML unless a client absolutely insists it be XHTML (and I can't convince them otherwise). :)

[drhowarddrfine]

IE7 does not understand xhtml at all. Even inserting that into the head doesn't matter if the server declares it as html/text.

[Charles]

IE7 does not understand xhtml at all. Even inserting that into the head doesn't matter if the server declares it as html/text.I beg to differ. Actually IE understands XHTML better than any other browser. It's just that the file name has to have a ".xml" extension.

[drhowarddrfine]

Well, you know what I mean Charles. It doesn't understand xhtml served as xhtml

[Charles]

HTML ignores that http header but gets it right - more right than Firefox - if you use the ".xml" file extension. So do both and all will be well.