  Re: text/html for html and xhtml  From: Boris Zbarsky
<bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:52:51 -0500
Message-ID: <480D5303.1020204@mit.edu> To: William F Hammond
<hammond@csc.albany.edu>  William F Hammond wrote: >>>>> 1.
Many search engines appear not to look at application/xhtml+xml.
>>>> That seems like a much simpler thing to fix in search
engines than in >>>> the specification and UAs, to be honest.
>>> Technically yes, but politically no. >> Why, exactly? > I
already explained that.  I'm sorry, but you in fact did not.
You just said that "search engines won't do  it because they
don't see a benefit".  UAs see no benefit to complicating the
parsing model.  Why is the claim that it is politically easier
to make the UAs  change than it is to make the search engines
change true?  I'm glad we agree that technically (and especially
in terms of speed of  roll-out) the search engine change is
likely to be easier.  >> Have you actually brought this up with
any search engine providers? > It was men