- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:55:29 -0500
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 12:46 -0400, Sam Ruby wrote: > Dan Connolly wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 16:57 -0400, Sam Ruby wrote: > > [...] > >> Unfortunately, based on the quick list I gathered below, there is a > >> competitive advantage to be gained by ignoring the spec as it currently > >> stands. > > [...] > > > > Is this feedback on the Internet Draft-to-be? > > http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/cts/ > > I believe so. That document suggests that "text/plain" is > authoritative. Oops; then the document is unclear; it's meant to just say "please review the HTML 5 spec, since it seems to overlap the HTTP spec in scope; here's a copy, quoted for your convenience." The Internet Draft I'm working on isn't intended to specify anything, but only invite review of the HTML 5 spec. > That does not appear to be the behavior of current > browsers, and as much as I would like them to, I have my doubts that > browsers will change their sniffing of feeds to conform to this standard > as there are a large number of pre-existing feeds for which "better" > results can be obtained by ignoring this standard. > > - Sam Ruby -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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