- From: Marcos Caceres <marcosc@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 15:53:09 +0100
- To: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>
- Cc: public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
2009/3/6 Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>: > Marcos Caceres schreef: >>> >>> 2. The XHTML mapping should also appear in the file identification table >>> [2]. >> >> What version of XHTML should I be pointing to? 1.0 or 1.1? > > Short version: > > XHTML 1.1. > > Long version: > > The XHTML 1.0 spec has some interesting informative prose in section 4, > “differences with HTML 4”, but that is probably repeated somewhere in HTML 5 > (and generally common sense). The Appendix C HTML Compatibility Guidelines > and the optional text/html MIME type do not apply in this case. > > XHTML 1.1 is XHTML 1.0 expressed using XHTML Modularization (something that > is unfortunately lost in HTML5, it seems), and in addition to some minor > modifications removes all the deprecated transitional stuff. As we all know, > just because XHTML 1.1 removes the deprecated elements doesn’t mean that UAs > no longer need to support it, but for authoring it seems good practice. > > Neither specification can be used stand-alone by the way; XHTML 1.0 > references HTML4 and XHTML 1.1 references XHTML Modularization which > references XHTML 1.0. > > ~Laurens > Done. Thanks for the explanation. I'll upload the new draft to CVS later today. -- Marcos Caceres http://datadriven.com.au
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