Re: Publication of specifications as HTML5

Karl Dubost, Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:33:03 -0400:
> Liam, 
> 
> Le 25 août 2011 à 08:22, Leif Halvard Silli a écrit :
>> And this seems also to be the approach that was 
>> followed when HTML401 was published. After all, the HTML401 spec is 
>> published with a HTML401 transitional doctype.
> 
> 
> 1. Go to first TR WD of HTML4
>    http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40-970917/

> 2. View source
> 
>     <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
>     <html lang="en">
>     <!-- $Id: cover.src,v 1.50 1997/09/17 16:30:31 lehors Exp $ -->
>     <HEAD>
> 
> 1. Go to first TR WD of XHTML1
> 2. View source
> 
>    <?xml version="1.0"?>
>    <?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="voyager.css"?>
>    <!DOCTYPE html SYSTEM 
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html-in-xml/DTD/loose.dtd">
>    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/Profiles/html4-transitional">
>    <head>
> 
> (btw on this one the full spec is blue. )

Interesting. I guess the above documents that the praxis back then was 
in line with (my interpretation of) what Liam says now: A working draft 
under /TR can conform to itself. But when the working draft becomes a 
Recommendation, then it must conform to a Recommendation - where that 
Recommendaiton could be to the very document itself.
-- 
Leif Halvard Silli

Received on Thursday, 25 August 2011 13:15:13 UTC