- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 07:21:41 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010, Jonas Sicking wrote: > > The best solution to a whole group of problems here is IMHO to define > that <meta http-equiv> has no relation to HTTP headers at all. Any and > all similarities with http and http headers is a historical artifact. For what it's worth, that's more or less what HTML does currently. > By defining that http-equiv isn't related to http at all, we can remove > *all* willful violations, since the only spec we'd be following is > HTML5. That is technically the case currently already; the only reason I mentioned the "willful violation" here is that people seem to like when I document known differences where they might expect things to work as per other specs. I'm happy to remove it if people think that's more accurate. > It would also save the working group time by invalidating this and other > issues. I'm happy to make it more explicit if that would help, either in response to a bug or (if the chairs thing that would be more helpful) in response to a working group decision stemming from an counter-change-proposal for this or another related issue. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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