- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:57:11 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, Mark Baker wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Ian Hickson<ian@hixie.ch> wrote: >>>> Well, in that case HTML5 is unsuitable as the *only* specification >>>> referenced by the text/html media type registration. >>> I disagree. >> Julian is correct. The registration for text/html needs to include >> sufficient information to allow legacy documents served with that type >> to retain their meaning. > > The HTML5 spec does have sufficient information to allow legacy documents > served with that type to be processed in a fashion that retains their > meaning, as far as I am aware. If I have missed something, please let me > know. You keep saying that, but pointing things out again and again doesn't appear to work. "Retaining the meaning" and "to be processed in a fashion that retains their meaning" are not the same thing. For the former, the specification must define what the element/attribute means. Usually, that means more than describing what a UA needs to do with it. head/@profile and meta/@scheme are examples that immediately come to mind; I'm sure there's more. BR, Julian
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