- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:04:25 -0700
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Oct 9, 2009, at 9:31 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > 1) head@profile is a feature inherited from HTML4, and external > standards relied on it in good faith. But html@version has never > been been in any version of HTML, so no one has had any valid reason > to depend on it. As pointed out by Anne van Kesteren, I overstated my case. HTML 4.01 allowed a version attribute on <html>, but did not define the syntax and made it deprecated. It is only allowed in the loose DTD, not strict. HTML 3.2 had a version attribute, did not specify it at all in prose, and the DTD made it fixed to the value "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN". HTML 3.0 had a version attribute, and in prose and the DTD made it fixed to the value "-//W3O//DTD W3 HTML 3.0//EN". I don't believe the version attribute is used to any significant extent in existing Web content. Given this history, I think the newly proposed version attribute is effectively a brand new feature, even though HTML has had an attribute named "version" in the past. Regards, Maciej
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