- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:28:47 -0600
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 11:51 -0800, Larry Masinter wrote: [...] > The need for multiple libraries comes from having incompatible > languages or language versions. Incompatible languages and > language versions should be avoided--- however, not providing > a way of detecting which of several incompatible languages > or language versions was intended is a head-in-the-sand way > of pretending like they don't exist, and makes the problem > worse, not better. I don't think so; the summary of this issue http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/4 shows that there are some eyes-open arguments that lead to the conclusion that we should not provide a way of detective which of several incompatible languages was intended: * L. David Baron "Version information" - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Apr/0279.html -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ gpg D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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