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From my understanding, the HTML5 is on browser side. Is there anything need to setup on the server to support HTML5? How do I verify the server fully support HTML5? Thanks.

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  • I know there are some MIME mappings that need to be setup on the server, but this question may be better answered on stack overflow or superuser.
    – murisonc
    Sep 20, 2011 at 0:40
  • Thanks. I will try ask on SO. I thought I asked the server side question.
    – garconcn
    Sep 20, 2011 at 1:01

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An HTTP server knows that it's not an expert in parsing HTML like those "browsers" it keeps hearing about; it cares that it's HTML long enough to set the MIME type to text/html and to decide whether it should be compressed and whether it needs to get handled by an external handler, but that's all based on the file extension.

The contents of HTML are of no concern to a web server; no special requirements need to be in place to serve HTML5 content.

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    wrong... websockets must be supported by web server May 29, 2013 at 19:43
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    @nonlinearly The websocket protocol was developed as part of the HTML 5 development process, but it isn't part of the HTML 5 spec. It's a separate protocol that uses HTTP as a starting point but isn't HTTP and isn't HTML (or HTML5). May 30, 2013 at 1:56
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    See also: websocket.org/aboutwebsocket.html was originally part of the HTML5 specification, but was moved to a separate standards document to keep the specification focused. May 30, 2013 at 2:07

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