- From: Dr. Olaf Hoffmann <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:39:55 +0200
- To: public-html-comments@w3.org
Ian Hickson: >On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Dr. Olaf Hoffmann wrote: >> >> There is no indication, that this might be 'HTML5'. Therefore no >> specific rule from the 'HTML5' draft needs to be applied. > >"text/html" is the indication that the HTML5 spec applies. (Or at least, >that will be the case once we update the text/html registration.) This would be really a big backwards incompatibility, because it is not obvious, what to send for previous HTML versions. And even if this is known, authors of document using old HTML versions have to switch this information. Old browsern will not know about this switch and may not be able anymore to interprete such old documents. I think, such a change would corrupt at least the text/html variants of (X)HTML completely. And of course, if a document (for example in a local file system) has no such 'text/html' indication, but has a version indication (doctype) for HTML4, it is obvious, that this is no 'HTML5' document. And it is not obvious, that a document without a version indication is intended to be 'HTML5'. Olaf
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