- From: Michel Fortin <michel.fortin@michelf.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 11:10:32 -0500
Le 4 d?c. 2006 ? 6:14, Mike Schinkel a ?crit : > It does matter. It is not just one of the important things, it is THE > important thing. Having two divergent HTMLs will create problems > for a vast > number of people and will significantly reduce efficiencies for > anyone that > has to deal with it. Worse, it could cause the non-technical public to > decide that HTML its just too much trouble, and THAT would be a > tragedy. I would tend to think that people would say well-formed XHTML is too much trouble, not HTML or pseudo-XHTML served with text/html. But that's not really better. > The irony is I'm not proposing much; just have as a design axiom > that the > trajectory of HTML5 and XHTML should aimed toward convergence when > technically possible. I don't like the word "convergence" as you use it: because we cannot change how HTML or XML is parsed there cannot be any real convergence. All we can do is decide what is valid and what is not within HTML, and to some extend within XHTML, and thus decide what is valid and what is not within the common subset at the intersection of the two. I don't see the use of the common subset as convergence, but as a way to avoid reimplementing the wheel to have two different outputs where it would be not necessary to do so. Michel Fortin michel.fortin at michelf.com http://www.michelf.com/
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