- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:43:24 +0100
- To: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, HTML WG Public List <public-html@w3.org>
Aryeh Gregor, Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:25:49 -0500: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: >> You have put in the HTML5 spec that HTML5 can simply be extended >> through writing a spec which extends it. However, you have not placed >> inside HTML5 a mechanism by which a validator can know which version of >> HTML5 to validate against. > > It should just validate against whatever it knows how to validate > against. In the hopefully unlikely event that two different > specifications approved by legitimate standards bodies specify > conflicting conformance requirements, the validator would have to > either choose one, or let the author manually choose. But I don't > think we need to worry about that until we come to it. A validator > could certainly validate both Microdata and HTML+RDFa. So you reject Ian's problem description? ]]What I object to is making Microdata a second-class citizen that, e.g., validators can validly claim is not part of HTML5.[[ -- leif halvard silli
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