Re: [w3c/WebPlatformWG] CFC: Make previous versions of HTML and XHTML obsoleteCFC: Make previous versions of HTML and XHTML obsolete (#86)

Going with my gut, I'd :+1: the proposal. But with

1. legacy software that still creates HTML: XSLT processors, EPUB generators, XML pipelines, ..., and
2. legacy documents: substantial part of the web, most e-books, ...

being with us for years to come, it should be remembered, that the tagging as obsolete also includes a recommendation for consuming apps not to support those standards.

Of course, a HTML parser author should judge for herself, if it's useful to handle HTML 3 or XHTML 1.1 in their application. On the other hand, the standards becoming obsolete might serve as fig leaf for decisions in management to drop support for standards, that might affect many people.

**Tl;dr:** if the obsolete standards get a note attached, that the deprecation is meant more for the producing side than the consuming one (good ol' Postel's Law applied), I'm all in for this.

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