- From: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 10:48:11 +0100
- To: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Cc: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, 24 May 2010 22:11:30 -0400 Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote: > It's the latter. That's a good summary of the situation. I don't quite > understand the reasoning behind XMDP where the first profile overrules > all other profiles in the attribute. Anyone on here know the reasoning > behind that decision? It seems backwards. It's because the HTML 4 rec states that only the first profile in the list is significant, the others being ignored. XMDP revises this to say that the first is most significant, and others are listed in decreasing significance. Why does HTML 4 make it a whitespace separated list of URIs, if all but the first should be ignored? Because they recognised the possible future need for multiple profiles, and wanted to make sure that any consuming tools were equipped to split the list on spaces. -- Toby A Inkster <mailto:mail@tobyinkster.co.uk> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
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