- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:07:29 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: "Dr. Olaf Hoffmann" <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>, public-html-comments@w3.org
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Dr. Olaf Hoffmann wrote: >> 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. > > HTML5 describes how you handle documents intended for previous versions as > well, so that's not an issue. Well, except for the things it doesn't describe anymore. So I agree that the media type registration should remain in a stand-alone document, obsoleting RFC 2854, but keeping most the historic stuff in it. This may require an issue in the Issue tracker. BR, Julian
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