Re: Re-registration of text/html

Leif Halvard Silli, Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:08:08 +0100:
> Sam Ruby, Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:29:06 -0500:
>> Leif Halvard Silli wrote:

[...]

> And, besides, this group has the change 

s/change/chance 

> to specify Ruby in HTML5 to be 
> identical with Ruby in XHTML 1.1.

[...]

>> Choosing a different MIME type has a very real consequence in each of 
>> these five consumers.
> 
> Some documents of the XHTML2 WG was rescinded last year. [...]

My point with saying this is that it is actually "old news" that XHTML 
1.1. aims for permission to be served as text/html: It was there, in 
the rescinded version.

And, btw, the permission to serve XHTML 1.1. is already issued! [1][2] 
For a small overview, see Wikipedia. [3]

The new thing that the planned PER of XHTML 1.1. aims for is just 
_more_ compatibility with "the Web". By allowing the @lang attribute. 
(And some other things - ask the XHTML2 working group!) In other words: 
So that it becomes possible to serve the same XHTML 1.1. document both 
as text/html and as application/xhtml+xml, with the same semantics.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-xhtml-media-types-20090116/#text-html
[2] 
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-xhtml-media-types-20090116/#compatGuidelines
[3] 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTML#XHTML_1.1.E2.80.94Module-based_XHTML

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leif halvard silli

Received on Thursday, 11 March 2010 04:26:35 UTC