Re: Re-registration of text/html

On 10.03.2010 15:51, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> ...
>> On the other hand, what concrete badness would ensue if we decide to
>> allow HTML 4.01 as well?
>
> Authors could be mislead into using a spec that is known to be vague as a reference. But then, to believe that that's concrete badness, one needs to believe that authors pay attention to MIME type registrations...
>
> (I expect UA implementors to track HTML5 for implementing text/html consumption regardless of what the MIME type registration says.)
> ...

Right. And I don't see a problem recommending that. But that's different 
from what we have now.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Wednesday, 10 March 2010 14:57:53 UTC