xhtml, which do you use with rails?

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi, you can use XHTML 1.0/1.1 or HTML 4.01. It really depends on what browsers you'll support and it's different for everyone.

Good luck,

-Conrad

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Nick, The use of rails doesn't effect your doctypes. See this article for a clear explanation on the difference between strict vs. transitional doctypes and their proper uses:

Best, BJ Clark

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Use a before_filter in your application controller to set the headers correctly. Something like:

  def set_encoding     if request.env["HTTP_ACCEPT"] && request.env["HTTP_ACCEPT"].index('application/xhtml+xml')       headers["Content-Type"] = "application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8"     else       headers["Content-Type"] = "text/html; charset=utf-8"     end   end