- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 01:02:40 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Julian Reschke wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > > > It is pointless to provide semantics of elements (or other features) > > that are obsolete other than the semantics that form the element's (or > > the feature's) normative user-agent conformance criteria, since the > > only effect of such semantics is in deciding whether the element (or > > feature) is being used correctly, and obsolete elements (and features) > > can never be used correctly, since they are obsolete and must never be > > used at all. > > That's fine with me. But in that case, the spec doesn't describe > previous versions sufficiently, and the media type registration should > continue to also reference previous specifications. Again, I disagree with this premise. HTML5 describes the semantics of obsolete elements to the extent required for the media type registration to refer exclusively to HTML5. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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