[Bug 20707] Please add a Scope section per the qualification of the TAG's support for REC track publication

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20707

--- Comment #5 from Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> ---
First, what Jeni said.

Second:

(In reply to comment #3)
> I want the spec to say that *if* one produces XHTML syntax for the
> consumption as HTML, then it is RECOMMENDED for EVERYONE - and not just for
> people with special tools and special processes - to serve polyglot markup.

I think that sort of thing would decrease rather than increase consensus. (I
object to that formulation.)

“Produces XHTML syntax” is ambiguous. XHTMLness depends on Content-Type—not
syntax. As for syntax, HTML5 deliberately allows XHTMLisms in text/html to ease
migration to valid HTML5 from Appendix C-influenced markup. It would be
entirely inappropriate to say that if you have some XHTMLisms in text/html, you
have to go all the way to polyglot. That would make migration harder—not
easier.

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