- From: Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:33:38 +0100
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- CC: public-html WG <public-html@w3.org>, "www-tag@w3.org List" <www-tag@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <50FD1982.5070001@kosek.cz>
On 21.1.2013 10:46, Henri Sivonen wrote: > Having people bother the developers of these products with bug reports > that the products are somehow wrong when the products say they produce > XHTML and the output works as application/xhtml+xml but not as > text/html is exactly the kind of bad effect of the polyglot doc that > makes me think this group should not have taken polyglot as a work > item in the first place and should not publish it as a REC now that > that the Process gives no choice but REC or Note. +1 > I am opposed to this working group encouraging polyglot markup or > appearing to encourage polyglot markup, because I don't want to spend > time at implementing something as useless as polyglot validation and I > don't want to be explaining to a horde of designers why I don't if > this polyglot stuff finds its way into an A List Apart article or > similar. Also, I'd much rather see the development time of authoring > tools such as BlueGriffon go into providing a better UI for authoring > HTML instead of chasing polyglot markup. +1 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz http://xmlguru.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------ Professional XML consulting and training services DocBook customization, custom XSLT/XSL-FO document processing ------------------------------------------------------------------ OASIS DocBook TC member, W3C Invited Expert, ISO JTC1/SC34 rep. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Bringing you XML Prague conference http://xmlprague.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------
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