- From: John-Mark Bell <jmb@netsurf-browser.org>
- Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 17:35:57 +0100 (BST)
- To: "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- cc: public-html@w3.org
On Wed, 2 May 2007, 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. Surely this goes far beyond the scope of the charter: [[ This group will maintain and produce incremental revisions to the HTML specification. ]] To me, a new MIME type implies a new language. Therefore, in my view, this is nowhere near "incremental revisions". John.
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