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Re: polyglot XHTML/HTML and <!DOCTYPE html about:legacy-compat>

From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 20:48:48 GMT
Message-Id: <201001022048.o02KmmjU006016@glenlivet.nag.co.uk>
To: Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>
CC: masinter@adobe.com, ht@inf.ed.ac.uk, tai@g5n.co.uk, julian.reschke@gmx.de, public-html@w3.org 

in addition to Jirka's comments, you pretty much have to use a catalog
or some such anyway (in which case the about: URI is as resolvable as an
http one).

Even for DTD that are apparently resolvable such as

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd

If you actually GET that URI more than a few times the W3C will cut you off
with a 503  code, to prevent their servers being overloaded

http://www.w3.org/blog/systeam/2008/02/08/w3c_s_excessive_dtd_traffic

So the difference between an about: URI scheme and an http: one is not
as great as may seem.

David
Received on Saturday, 2 January 2010 20:50:11 UTC

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