Proposal to Republish Previous Versions of HTML and XHTML as Obsolete Recommendations (Wide Review until 2017-09-07)

Hello,

W3C Advisory Committee Representatives received a Proposal to republish 
the following previous versions of HTML and XHTML as Obsolete 
Recommendations:

HTML 3.2 Reference Specification, W3C Recommendation 14-Jan-1997
https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32-19970114

HTML 4.0 Specification, W3C Recommendation 18-Dec-1997
https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40-971218/

HTML 4.0 Specification, W3C Recommendation, revised on 24-Apr-1998
https://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/

HTML 4.01 Specification, W3C Recommendation 24 December 1999
https://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/

HTML5, A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML, W3C 
Recommendation 28 October 2014
https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-html5-20141028/

XHTML™ Basic, W3C Recommendation 19 December 2000
https://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xhtml-basic-20001219/

XHTML™ 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language, A Reformulation of 
HTML 4 in XML 1.0, W3C Recommendation 26 January 2000
https://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xhtml1-20000126/

Modularization of XHTML™, W3C Recommendation 10 April 2001
https://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xhtml-modularization-20010410/

XHTML™ 1.1 - Module-based XHTML, W3C Recommendation 31 May 2001
https://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xhtml11-20010531/

XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition), A 
Reformulation of HTML 4 in XML 1.0, W3C Recommendation 26 January 2000, 
revised 1 August 2002
https://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801/

XHTML-Print, W3C Recommendation 20 September 2006
https://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xhtml-print-20060920/

XHTML™ Basic 1.1, W3C Recommendation 29 July 2008
https://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xhtml-basic-20080729/

XHTML™ Modularization 1.1, W3C Recommendation 8 October 2008
https://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xhtml-modularization-20081008/

XHTML™ Basic 1.1 - Second Edition, W3C Recommendation 23 November 2010
https://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-xhtml-basic-20101123/

XHTML™ Modularization 1.1 - Second Edition, W3C Recommendation 29 July 2010
https://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-xhtml-modularization-20100729/

XHTML-Print - Second Edition, W3C Recommendation 23 November 2010
https://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-xhtml-print-20101123/

XHTML™ 1.1 - Module-based XHTML - Second Edition, W3C Recommendation 23 
November 2010
https://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-xhtml11-20101123/

For all documents except HTML 5.0 the SoTD should read:

[[
This specification has been superseded by more recent specifications; it 
describes an older version of HTML and is thus an [Obsolete 
Recommendation](https://www.w3.org/2016/11/obsoleting-rescinding/) not 
recommended for new implementation but available as a reference for old 
-- and possibly still deployed -- implementations.  New implementations 
should follow the [latest version](https://www.w3.org/TR/html/) of the 
HTML specification.
]]

For the HTML 5.0 specification the SoTD should read:

[[
This specification has been superseded by [HTML 
5.1](https://www.w3.org/TR/html51/); a more recent specification of 
HTML5.  This specification of HTML 5.0 is thus an [Obsolete 
Recommendation](https://www.w3.org/2016/11/obsoleting-rescinding/) 
available as a reference for old -- and possibly still deployed -- 
implementations.  New implementations should follow the [latest 
version](https://www.w3.org/TR/html/) of the HTML specification.
]]


As part of ensuring that the community is aware of this proposal, W3C 
invites public comments through 23:59, Boston time on 2017-09-07, as 
follows:
  file a GitHub issue <https://github.com/w3c/WebPlatformWG/issues>,
  or send them to public-webapps@w3.org

If you work for a W3C Member 
<https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List>, please coordinate your 
comments with your Advisory Committee Representative. For example, you 
may wish to make public comments and have your Advisory Committee 
Representative refer to it from his or her formal review comments.


This Call for review follows section 6.9 "Obsoleting or Rescinding a W3C 
Recommendation":
   https://www.w3.org/2017/Process-20170301/#rec-rescind

and section 6.2.3.1 "Wide Review" of the W3C Process Document:
   https://www.w3.org/2017/Process-20170301/#wide-review

Thank you,

For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director, and
Philippe Le Hégaret, Project Management Lead;
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications

Received on Friday, 11 August 2017 04:45:41 UTC