On Aug 31, 2009, at 14:22, Julian Reschke wrote: >>>> Apart from this whether this is or is not a requirement, what is >>>> useful about this being defined in HTML5 if it has absolutely no >>>> effect on anyone whatsoever? >>> >>> It isn't. It was Ian's choice to do it this way. My proposal is >>> and was to leave the registration in a separate document, which >>> can continue to also reference previous specs. >> That is not an answer to my question. But since you put it this >> way, why would the media type registration document have to >> reference the previous specifications? > > Because the point of a media type registration is to point > recipients to a description of the format, sufficient to understand > the document. Now I'm confused by your argument. Why do *recipients* need anything more than the processing requirements given by HTML5? -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/Received on Monday, 31 August 2009 11:33:35 UTC
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