[Bug 8979] Please reconsider should-level requirement for version attribute

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8979


Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|ASSIGNED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX




--- Comment #2 from Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>  2010-05-03 01:36:36 ---
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Status: Rejected

Change Description: 

No change necessary.

Rationale:

There is nothing about the definition of the @version attribute that would
preclude HTML6 from defining a compatible version of the attribute in the
future. WHAT WG and HTML WG seem to have asserted that they are not interested
in pursuing "document versioning" in the past - has this changed? Furthermore,
@version is already defined and is in active use for XHTML+RDFa 1.0 - it
already exists and is being used, so removing it from HTML+RDFa does nothing to
change the state of published documents on the web that may be interpreted
using HTML5. 

If the HTML WG would like to specify the @version attribute format, then it
should do so in HTML5.

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Received on Monday, 3 May 2010 01:36:38 UTC