Re: xmlns in HTML5 (was: Telecon Agenda- Thursday 1500 UTC)

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Steven Pemberton wrote:
> 
> So I can send XHTML5 as text/html if I want.

No, you can't. If you send a document as text/html, then _by definition_ 
it is an HTML5 document, not an XHTML5 document. There is no other way to 
distinguish them than the MIME type.


> The upshot of this is that xmlns attributes will remain in the DOM. This 
> is good. And it is all we need.

That's fine (and true), but that wasn't the question I was answering.

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