- From: Dean Edridge <dean@55.co.nz>
- Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:36:59 +1300
- To: public-html@w3.org
regarding: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#xhtml5 > For compatibility with existing content and prior specifications, this > specification describes two authoring formats: one based on XML > (referred to as XHTML5), and one using a custom format > <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#parsing> inspired by SGML (referred > to as HTML5). Implementations may support only one of these two > formats, although supporting both is encouraged. I don't think that support for XHTML5 should be optional. Specifying that user-agents may support only one format, but supporting both is "encouraged" is insufficient and will only lead to a lack of support for XHTML5 like we had with XHTML1 [1] We've been down this road before where support for application/xhtml+xml was only an "opt in" for user-agents. That's the main reason we have less than 100 valid XHTML websites today. [2] People wont be able to use XHTML5 if there's no support for it. Can this please be changed to: [[ .....Implementations MUST support these two formats. ]] [1] http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9677 [2] http://www.goer.org/Markup/TheXPhiles/ Dean Edridge
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