- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:59:19 -0700
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Aug 21, 2009, at 12:29 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Julian Reschke wrote: >> >> the current registration looses information from RFC 2854 -- RFC 2854 >> applies to all HTML vocabularies (and references them), while the >> HTML5 >> just describes the "current" language. (this could of course be >> fixed in >> HTML5 by adding that historic information in the right place) > > HTML5 obsoletes all prior vocabularies and defines behaviour (and > semantics) for all text/html documents. So it is appropriate for it to > do this. We can choose to ignore old mark-up definitions only if HTML5 is one of many definitions for "text/html". If HTML5 is claiming to define all of text/html, then all text/html elements and attributes must be defined within the specification (perhaps deprecated, but nevertheless fully defined). ....Roy
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