- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:22:46 +0100
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- CC: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>, 'Adam Barth' <w3c@adambarth.com>, 'HTML WG' <public-html@w3.org>
On 28.02.2010 18:55, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > ... > 1) It seems to me that documents with an HTML4 doctype can already be > distinguished from ones with an HTML5 doctype. In fact, conformance > checkers are explicitly allowed to defer to an HTML4 validator if they > see an HTML4 doctype. So examples of requiring HTML4 constructs that are > invalid HTML5 would not be helped in any way by adding an explicit > version indicator to HTML5. Now, there may be other problems with this, > such as not allowing HTML4 to be sent as text/html (depending on what > ultimately happens with our IANA registration). But that problem is not > resolved by changing the set of allowed DOCTYPE strings to include ones > with an explicit HTML5 version indicator. > ... That assumes that we actually resolve the media type registration so that the HTML4 vocabulary stays valid. Best regards, Julian
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