On 11/19/07, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote: > Also, the requirement for the MIME type to be "valid" is problematic, > because the registration mechanism is dysfunctional. Requiring > conformance checkers to know about the IANA registry for e.g. language > tags is feasible (and implemented :-). However, it would be unhelpful > to flag unregistered MIME types as HTML5 conformance errors, since > unregistered types are commonly used interoperably on the Web. "valid" doesn't mean "registered" AFAICT. As used in 2046 - presumably it means the same in HTML 5 - it just means that the type fits the grammar. It is redundant though, so I'd be happy for the word to be removed. Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Coactus; Web-inspired integration strategies http://www.coactus.comReceived on Monday, 19 November 2007 17:38:57 UTC
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