Re: Deprecated language tags and document conformance

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Julian Reschke wrote:
> > 
> > My intent is to defer to the relevant standards and let them decide 
> > what's valid or not. I don't think we should micromanage this, since 
> > it changes so much. (Right now HTML5 refers to RFC3066, but I'll 
> > update the reference appropriately to the moving-target reference 
> > rather than a specific RFC before we're done.)
> 
> If you want to refer to a specific version, refer to what's current now. 
> If you want to refer to "the latest and greatest", refer to BCP 47.

Right, that's what I meant by the moving-target reference. A bunch of 
people have already suggested this:

   http://www.whatwg.org/issues/#references

-- 
Ian Hickson               U+1047E                )\._.,--....,'``.    fL
http://ln.hixie.ch/       U+263A                /,   _.. \   _\  ;`._ ,.
Things that are impossible just take longer.   `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Received on Tuesday, 12 August 2008 22:55:43 UTC