Re: Null change proposal for ISSUE-88 (mark II)

Leif Halvard Silli, Sun, 4 Apr 2010 04:37:55 +0200:
> Ian Hickson, Sat, 3 Apr 2010 22:38:12 +0000 (UTC):
>> On Sat, 3 Apr 2010, Julian Reschke wrote:
>>> On 04.04.2010 00:34, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 02:00:32 -0700, Julian Reschke wrote:
>>>>> The attribute is an HTML attribute, but it's value space is defined by
>>>>> the HTTP header registry.
   [...]
>> http-equiv isn't anything to do with HTTP in practice. HTML5 just makes 
>> that clear. Ideally we'd drop the whole attribute, but unfortunately there 
>> are some pragmas that are needed for backwards-compatibility. I agree that 
>> some people will object (indeed, you have already objected). What matters 
>> isn't whether anyone agrees, what matters is that we make the right 
>> technical decisions that are compatible with reality.
> 
> I am arguing that to continue to allow white-space as well as continue 
> to allow a comma separated list is more compatible with reality, than 
> forbidding one or both. Bug 9264. Your reaction to Bug 9264 was that I 
> should file bugs against user agents! (To "save" the spec.) Why should 
> I file bugs against vendors if your spec matches user agent reality?

I have reopened bug 9264, under a new title,

"There should be a link/border between [the] META content-language
 algorithm and HTTP content-language headers"

because Mozilla browsers (which were the background for bug 9264) 
actually behave according to the HTML5 draft.

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9264#c7
-- 
leif halvard silli

Received on Monday, 5 April 2010 02:56:36 UTC