- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 12:53:15 -0700
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Sep 6, 2010, at 1:45 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > David Singer wrote: >> I think that formal registries and Wikis are both useful. >> >> Formal registries can have well-defined entry criteria, expert review, >> stability, references/owners/specifications, and so on (if they wish). >> They can be trusted, stable. > > Trusted by whom and for what purpose? Not by browser implementors or Web authors. > > Who benefits from trusting that image/svg+xml doesn't exist (and presumably "cannot" be used) or from trusting that ISO-8859-1 isn't an alias for Windows-1252 when decoding? Any media type can be used, whether it is registered or not. But there is no point in registering a type that has no corresponding specification of how it is to be processed. ISO-8859-1 is not an alias for windows-1252, anywhere. Please do not confuse errors in labeling due to one browser's rendering choices with defining a new meaning for the label. Working around content errors does not imply they are not errors. ....Roy
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