- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:55:57 +0200
- To: Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com>
- Cc: "Michael[tm] Smith" <mike@w3.org>, Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>, public-html WG <public-html@w3.org>, "www-tag@w3.org List" <www-tag@w3.org>
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com> wrote: > What am I missing? You aren't missing anything. > Under what conditions can the expectations of producers > and consumers of polyglot documents be simplified by the addition of > polyglot markup to their existing world/toolchain? 1) The producer wants to maintain a document as a single file of bytes on an HTTP server that serves from the file system. AND 2) The producer wants to serve those bytes as text/html to cater to the general public—including IE8. AND 3) The producer wants to facilitate a non-browser consumer that a) Does not possess a conforming HTML parser. AND b) Possesses an XML parser or a non-conforming HTML parser that happens to barf less if the input is XML-like. AND c) Is not seeking to consume Web content in general (as that would necessitate violating condition a). AND d) Has a line of communication back to the producer in order to complain when the document inevitably becomes non-polyglot by accident as a result of an edit. So a very narrow case. Not worth a REC, in my opinion. A solution in search of a problem. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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