- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:38:24 -0800
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Julian Reschke wrote: > > Jonas Sicking wrote: >>> No. Look, if you don't want to have to take on the extra work of >>> fully supporting HTTP (for what is, admittedly, currently a fringe >>> case), fine, don't. Just please don't ask that we tell those who are >>> willing to do so, that they can't. >> >> Given that none of the current browsers support this today, I'm not >> sure who we would help by saying that this is non-conformant behavior. > > The suggestion was *not* to say anything about it, and just to rely on > the normative spec for it, which is RFC2616 now and will be RFC2616bis > in the future. But not saying anything is likely to hurt compatibility between implementations and make authors rely on features that only work in some browsers. / Jonas
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