[Bug 22563] Update status preface

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=22563

Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
                 CC|                            |xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-i
                   |                            |ua.no
         Resolution|FIXED                       |---

--- Comment #4 from Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> ---
In the poll, Henri said: “I object to the characterization "This commonly
arises in legacy systems and content syndication."”, see
(https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/40318/polyglot-status-preference-poll/results)

In my own rationale in the poll, I agreed that the sentence ”should be
improved”. The reason I think so is A) that it is unclear what the ”this” in
that sentence actually refers to and B) that the unclarity of the ”this“ is due
to to the fact that the preceding sentence IMO is complicated and unclear. C)
It would also be good to soften the claim that (whatever the ”this”) it
_commonly_ arises. 

Further more, paragraph vaguely contradicts the fact that the specification, in
its November 2013 shape, has been sharpened as a *particular* profile of HTML
polyglots, namely a well-rounded UTF-8 based profile of HTML polyglots. Add to
that some repetitive and/or suboptimal word choices, I propose to change the
entire paragraph as follows:

]]
  This specification summarizes design guidelines for authors who wish their
XHTML or HTML documents to be conforming whether parsed as HTML or as XML. The
document is intended to be useful to web authors, in particular those who want
to serve receivers without concern for whether they have XML or HTML parsers
available. (2) Such concerns may for instance arise in content syndication or
when receivers are on legacy systems. HTML polyglots 'facilitate migration to
and from xhtml'[*], including transition from legacy XML to HTML5, and this
document serves to accurately specify the requirements of a UTF-8 based profile
for such documents.
 [*]
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/document-metadata.html#charset-0
[[

If Henri or some of those who proposed the original text steps to “bless” or
propose changes to the above text, then that would be appreciated. If we don’t
hear anything within the next few days, I assume we will just use the above
text rather verbatim.

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