Re: ISSUE-54: doctype-legacy-compat

On Jan 16, 2009, at 14:48 , Sam Ruby wrote:
> One such tool is mentioned in the bug report[8] cited in my prior  
> email:
>
> [8] http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6336
>

As one who uses such tools, I would tend to think that I would expect  
them to require updates to their HTML serialisations in order to  
support new empty elements anyway, and therefore that tossing in a  
change for the DOCTYPE wouldn't be much work. For the user who really  
wants to produce HTML5 the tooling update is minimal; and if there's  
anyone out there who is at the same time so cutting edge that they  
want to produce HTML5 but so conservative that they won't upgrade a  
serialisation library I would tend to think that they have enough  
issues of their own that we don't need to meddle.

At the end of the day, the above means that I could live with any  
option. But really, I think we'll be better off with having just the  
one option, and have it as short and simple as possible. Ideally I  
would live best with whichever option closes this small issue as fast  
as possible, even if it takes a formal vote.

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Received on Friday, 16 January 2009 14:11:42 UTC