Re: Re-registration of text/html

On Feb 21, 2010, at 2:26 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:

> On Sun, 21 Feb 2010, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>>
>> It seems to be it should be confirming to serve content that uses  
>> one or
>> more "other applicable specifications" extensions. Is that consistent
>> with what the MIME registration says? If not, we'd better fix it,  
>> or not
>> only @profile but also RDFa and Microdata will be nonconforming to  
>> send
>> in text/html. I assume this is not what we want.
>
> HTML5 explicitly allows you to use such specifications, and the
> registration defers to HTML5, so I think we're covered.
>

So someone could, if they wanted to, makes an extension spec which  
restores every feature from all three of the HTML4.01 DTDs to  
conforming status, if they cared to. (Not that I expect anyone to  
actually go to that level of effort.)

Regards,
Maciej