Re: Re-registration of text/html

On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:24:59 +0100, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>  
wrote:
> On 10.03.2010 16:12, Henri Sivonen wrote:
>> This philosophical question could be avoided by stating that documents  
>> labeled "text/html" must be processed according to HTML5.
>> ...
>
> If we did that, we'd have to make sure that this doesn't break existing  
> uses. So statements like
>
>    "User agents should ignore the profile content attribute on head  
> elements."
>
> would need to be fixed.

Isn't that statement true for the majority of existing usage of the  
profile attribute? And therefore a SHOULD requirement is adequate?


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Received on Wednesday, 10 March 2010 15:33:39 UTC