Re: ISSUE-53: mediatypereg - suggest closing on 2009-09-03

On 31 Aug 2009, at 11:45, Henri Sivonen wrote:

> It seems to me that there's a difference of underlying premises here.
> Premise 1: HTML5 obsoletes HTML 2.0, 3.2 and 4.01 and XHTML 1.x.  
> New authoring must use the latest level of the language.
> Premise 2: HTML 2.0, 3.2, 4.01 and 5 and XHTML 1.x are all  
> Recommended. It is appropriate to author new pages using older  
> levels of the language.

I think my suggested media type registration text is a reasonable  
compromise between these. It notes the existence of various different  
versions of HTML, but gives user agents the freedom to treat them all  
as HTML5 if they wish:

http://www.w3.org/mid/1251457061.2394.75.camel@ophelia2.g5n.co.uk

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