- From: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 18:02:22 +0100
- To: Jeff Cutsinger <jeff@cutsinger.org>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On 2 May 2007, at 17:40, Jeff Cutsinger wrote: > Philip Taylor (Webmaster) wrote: >> L. David Baron wrote: >> >>> If you want strict error handling rules, you need to introduce them >>> before anyone handles the content that they're for, which >>> essentially means before anybody handles the MIME type of the format >>> they're sent in. >> >> Yes, I had come to the same conclusion. "application/html" >> is one possibility, but there may already be browsers that >> accept it; "text/html5" seems pretty safe at first sight. >> >> Philip Taylor >> > > This is a fantastic idea. It needs some refocusing and revision, > though. > A lot of problems have been noted with "text/*", so we'll > definitely not > want to use that. And we definitely want a very clean syntax where you > have to close all your open tags and quote all your attributes. We'll > call this syntax "ecksml". So we have "application/ecksml". Then > what we > can do is separate the syntax from the semantics and add different > sublanguages, like "essvg" for graphics, which will be > "application/essvg+ecksml". But if we want to specify that we're using > the html application, we'll do "application/eckshtml+ecksml". Now we > just need to get IE on board. We're chartered (as you of course know, having read the charter before joining the WG) to create an XML serialisation as well as a "classic HTML" serialisation. - Geoffrey Sneddon
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