- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:12:27 -0500
- To: "Leif Halvard Silli" <lhs@malform.no>
- Cc: "Andrew Sidwell" <w3c@andrewsidwell.co.uk>, "Justin James" <j_james@mindspring.com>, public-html@w3.org
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
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