- From: Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:36:27 -0800
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote: > 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? If it's true for the majority implementations of profile attribute, then a MAY requirement is sufficient. No reason to encourage (which is what a "SHOULD" is, an encouragement) breaking of existing implementations such as GRDDL processors. MAY wording here also seems more compatible with allowing user agents to implement the HTML5 Profile attribute extension. Thanks, Tantek -- http://tantek.com/
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