- From: William F Hammond <hammond@csc.albany.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:47:29 -0400
- To: whatwg@whatwg.org, public-html@w3.org, www-math@w3.org, www-svg@w3.org
Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> writes: >> So user agents need to learn how to recognize the good and the bad >> in both mimetypes. > > Recognize and do what with it? > >> Otherwise you have Gresham's Law: the bad documents will drive out the >> good. > > Perhaps you should clearly state your definitions of "bad" and "good" > in this case? I'd also like to know, given those definitions, why > it's bad for the "bad" documents to drive out the "good", and how you > think your proposal will prevent that from happening. "Good" and "bad" here apply to document instances. "Good" means compliant xhtml+(mathml|svg)*; "bad", as I casually used it, means other. My only point is that a user agent should parse as xml a document whose preamble indicates xhtml even when the mimetype is text/html. Or, if that is too hard or too politically difficult, going forward the WG should provide a formula for the front of a document that asks for an xhtml parse. -- Bill
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