Re: comments on the polyglot spec from Julian Reschke on 2010-05-19 (public-html@w3.org from May 2010)

From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 13:32:32 +0200
To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
CC: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <4BF3CC50.1050204@gmx.de>

On 19.05.2010 13:27, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> However, a .php file is not an HTML file with PHP inside. It's a PHP program with pieces of HTML source in special string literal and echo function syntactic sugar inside the PHP program.
>
> If editing PHP programs were considered to be within the charter if this WG, I'd expect those who have previously objected to e.g.<canvas>  being within charter to object even more forcefully now. :-)

For the record: I agree that parsing and conformance of PHP are out of 
scope, the same way it would be as for XSLT or JSP.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Wednesday, 19 May 2010 11:39:53 UTC