- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 23:15:21 +0200
- To: CE Whitehead <cewcathar@hotmail.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org, hsivonen@iki.fi, bzbarsky@mit.edu, rubys@intertwingly.net, daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com
CE Whitehead, Fri, 21 May 2010 16:50:32 -0400: >> Henri Sivonen, Thu, 20 May 2010 05:57:41 -0700 (PDT): >>> "Leif Halvard Silli" <xn--mlform-iua@målform.no> wrote: >>>>> What KompoZer and NVu do is not a use case. >>>> >>>> The use case is "an in-document and editor independent signal to >>>> create polyglot HTML5". >>> >>> I meant what [ARE] you are trying to accomplish that can be helped by >>> having an in-band indicator for requesting polyglot output from an >>> editor. >> >> […] read it as if you asked why, given the existence of a >> polyglot syntax, there also is need for a indicator for this syntax. >> >> The purpose of something that signifies a certain encoding, is of >> course standardization around that encoding. By inserting the polyglot >> syntax indicator, one indicates what coding flavor to use. It is very >> irritating if you seek to follow a certain standard, and then suddenly, >> gets your standardized documents converted into another standard, by a >> tool which didn't know that you tried to follow another standard than >> the default one - because you were only using a indicator that was only >> a private indicator. > > … do you want to spell out to the ways to indicate the various > standards and nothing more? Do I want the polyglot spec to say (aka 'spell out') how one can indicate that the document is supposed to follow the polyglot syntax rules? Answer: Yes. I suppose the alternative to "yes, this is all I want" is "no, I also want to settle how to solve the fundamental versioning problem - to leave open a way to indicate that a document is written in a new version of HTML - including a new version of polyglot HTML". Answer: Right now, all I want is to have a way to indicate that the document follows the polyglot syntax rules. -- leif halvard silli
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