IE 10 --- still not attuned to standards?

dalecosp

IE 10's F12 Developer Tools wrote:
HTML1406: Invalid tag start: "<?". Question marks should not start tags.

The offending code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

I suppose that's outdated now, too?

:bleh:

NogDog

Maybe you have to serve up the file as an applicable XML mime-type before its parser does not assume it is supposed to be text/html?

Weedpacket

And hope that IE10 recognises the MIME type (one of the things I suspect throttled XHTML uptake in the first place).

Bonesnap

A cursory look found this. I have no idea if it's applicable. Are you declaring it on the very first line without any spaces or other characters before it?

W3C wrote:
Use the encoding declaration of the XML declaration on the first line of the page. Ensure there is nothing before it, including spaces (although a byte-order mark is ok).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

From the W3C website. They also list other ways of declaring the character encoding depending on the doctype.

It doesn't surprise me in the least though if IE10 simply isn't up to snuff on standards. It's IE, after all.

dalecosp

NogDog;11027453 wrote:
Maybe you have to serve up the file as an applicable XML mime-type before its parser does not assume it is supposed to be text/html?

That's it bang on the nose, near as I can tell. Whether I'm going to take time to fix it just yet ... quite another matter.

dalecosp

Bonesnap;11027481 wrote:
A cursory look found this. I have no idea if it's applicable. Are you declaring it on the very first line without any spaces or other characters before it?

Of course! 🙂

I had a mission to make everything I did better than my predecessor(s), who didn't seem to bother with things like Validators. Not that it's the Almighty Lord of 3W's, but ... 😉

From the W3C website. They also list other ways of declaring the character encoding depending on the doctype.

It doesn't surprise me in the least though if IE10 simply isn't up to snuff on standards. It's IE, after all.

Yeah; it's just as I mentioned above, editing all those templates for something fairly "trivial" ...

Weedpacket;11027473 wrote:
And hope that IE10 recognises the MIME type (one of the things I suspect throttled XHTML uptake in the first place).

Indeed, you are wise; even the GoogleMonster got in on the action.

So sad to sit by and watch "standards" leave your work in the dust of time ...