- From: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:19:02 +0100
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>
- Cc: Andrew Sidwell <w3c@andrewsidwell.co.uk>, Justin James <j_james@mindspring.com>, public-html@w3.org
On 23 Sep 2008, at 02:53, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > > Andrew Sidwell 2008-09-22 18.47: > >> In short, yes; the suggestion to junk backwards compatibility is >> the polar opposite of how the spec (and the Web!) has been >> developed to date. HTML5 is a specification of how to handle text/ >> html and application/xhtml+xml documents, not how to handle a >> subset of text/html with a certain magic string at the beginning. > > Actually, the HTML 5 draft *is* about how to handle a subset of text/ > html. Allthough a very large subset of the Web. If it's only a subset, it isn't good enough. It needs to define everything, otherwise de-facto it remains undefined. My understanding is it is the aim to document everything. -- Geoffrey Sneddon <http://gsnedders.com/>
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