Re: extension of markdown files from marbux on 2012-11-20 (public-markdown@w3.org from November 2012)

From: marbux <marbux@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 08:10:48 -0800
To: shane@aptest.com
Cc: Markdown List <public-markdown@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAJ1g4g9zRudn=NRoKkdugWtQHMtSPTwHiV7VV_hdwikjQKXpDQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:34 AM, Shane McCarron <ahby@aptest.com> wrote:
> Earlier people mentioned polyglot markup and it seemed to scare others.
> Polyglot is an HTML5-introduced term for something we defined way back when
> for XHTML 1.0.  It just means markup that is valid XHTML and also works well
> in HTML user agents.  The current generation polyglot spec is at
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html-polyglot/

Thanks for that wisdom, Shane. I was assuming incorrectly something
along the lines of the common and ordinary meaning of "polyglot".

Paul

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