- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 22:40:10 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: public-html-comments@w3.org
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Dan Connolly wrote: > > Recent drafts say: > > [[ > This document is the relevant specification. Labeling a resource > with the text/html type asserts that the resource is an *HTML > document* using *the HTML syntax* > ]] > -- http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/iana.html#text-html > > And *the HTML syntax* doesn't include doctypes that are widely used in > documents that conform to HTML 2, 3.2, and 4.x specs and XHTML 1.x specs. > > I think it's reasonable for consumers to treat those documents the way > that the HTML 5 spec says treat them, but I don't think it's reasonable > to say that those documents aren't text/html any more; I don't even > think it's reasonable to insist that people stop producing HTML 4.x > documents. I doubt that's really what anybody meant, but it's what > the document says. Is this a new problem with the text/html registration in HTML5, or is this a long-standing problem? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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