Re: Design goal regarding HTML5

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 2:16 AM, James Clark <jjc@jclark.com> wrote:

> If the goal is to be able view MicroXML documents that happen to use the
> right element/attribute names "casually in a browser", then does it matter
> that the browser will use quirks mode (if we don't allow DOCTYPE)?
>

Agreed quirks mode is not the end of the world, except for some oler
browser versions which will soon fade away into obscurity.



> For robust, standards-compliant delivery of HTML5, my current inclination
> is to use an MicroXML->HTML5 serializer that does the right thing with
> empty elements, and adds a DOCTYPE  declaration. We should at least have a
> standard way of representing an HTML5 DOM (at least any HTML5 DOM
> representable in the HTML syntax) in MicroXML, which means we need some
> convention for dealing with xlink:href.
>
> So my current position is:
>
> - no bare DOCTYPE
> - no to the additional HTML5 restriction on XML comments
>

+1

As for xlink:href, since the user will be in a restricted vocabulary if
they want straightforward serialization to HTML5, the convention for such
could simply be "xlinkhref" without fear of a vocab clash.  We could put
that and the few other conventions for HTML5-convertible MicroXML into a
non-normative annex.


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