Re: [HTML5] 2.8 Character encodings

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