- From: William F Hammond <hammond@csc.albany.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:01:49 -0400
- To: whatwg@whatwg.org, public-html@w3.org, www-math@w3.org, www-svg@w3.org
"Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com> writes:
>> As we all know, a clear boundary was drawn, presumably because it
>> was onerous for browsers to "sniff" incoming content and then decide
>> how to parse.
>
> Actually, it was not the browsers:
>
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2000Sep/0024.html
Oh, but that is about sniffing even if it's not explicitly stated.
And, at that time, there was not extant tag soup masquerading as xhtml.
> That's a very limited set of differences which mostly affect page layout.
Yes, but the point is, once a user agent begins to sniff, there's no
rational excuse for it not to recognize compliant xhtml+(mathml|svg).
>> What obstacles to this exist?
>
> The Web.
Really!?!
It's time for user agents to stop supporting bogus document preambles.
-- Bill
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