D3mon - 11:33 pm on Aug 29, 2004 (gmt 0)

Yes, the HTTP ACCEPT is checked to determine the Q values for both text/html and application/xhtml+xml and the preferred type (with the higher Q value) is served with the appropriate mime type. Until this time, my hard work in XHTML was perceived by most browsers as a 'tag-soup'. In each case, the appropriate DTD is supplied.

My understanding was the W3C do not recommend sending XHTML1.1 with the text/html mime type.

The GoogleBot override in my code detects 'google' in the UA and defaults to HTML4 with the text/html mime type.

While I've just about got my head around this mime-type madness, I fear this additional issue with Google may just halt my further progress into standards-compatible code.