Re: Is "breaking the Web" with HTML 5 a non issue?

Leif wrote:

> Ian a short while ago said: "It makes no sense for the spec to advise
> someone to not conform  to the specification." [1] Likewise it makes
> no sense advice to code according HTML 4, if HTML 4 is supposed to be
> interpreted as HTML 5.
>
> With HTML 5, it is proposed that the message becomes: There are
> certain things of the past that UAs may forget. Thus HTML 5 actually
> is locking things out of the Web. Actively so.

Good point.

Another example @profile:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Jul/0571.html

The editor's atance (drop the attribute):
http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2008-May/014692.html
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008May/0102.html

Among Dan's conclusions:

- "use the head/@profile attribute anyway, despite what the HTML 5 spec says."
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/08/the_details_of_data_in_documen.html

Best Regards,
Laura

Received on Tuesday, 23 September 2008 12:13:08 UTC