- From: Shawn Medero <soypunk@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:15:02 -0500
- To: "Dean Edridge" <dean@55.co.nz>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On 12/19/07, Dean Edridge <dean@55.co.nz> wrote: > > 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. > > Can this please be changed to: > [[ > .....Implementations MUST support these two formats. > ]] Well that's one side of the issue... what are the others? What are the cases where supporting both serializations is an undue burden? Take off the desktop browser implementor hat and try on the other HTML 5 parser hats: mobile device, consumer electronics, embedded desktop widget engine and so on. The pros & cons of this (and any future) proposed change are needed for the issue tracking volunteers, editors, chairs, and the whole working group to make rational choices. Shawn
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