Re: extension of markdown files

Yeah - I think their definition of the word is silly.  The original XHTML
Note about it didn't use that word.  See
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-xhtml-media-types-20090116/ for pretty
reasonable guidance.  There was a Draft that never god published for
political reasons that was even better... it is at
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2010/ED-xhtml-media-types-20100218/

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:10 AM, marbux <marbux@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:34 AM, Shane McCarron <ahby@aptest.com> wrote:
> > Earlier people mentioned polyglot markup and it seemed to scare others.
> > Polyglot is an HTML5-introduced term for something we defined way back
> when
> > for XHTML 1.0.  It just means markup that is valid XHTML and also works
> well
> > in HTML user agents.  The current generation polyglot spec is at
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/html-polyglot/
>
> Thanks for that wisdom, Shane. I was assuming incorrectly something
> along the lines of the common and ordinary meaning of "polyglot".
>
> Paul
>



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Shane P. McCarron
Managing Director, Applied Testing and Technology, Inc.