Re: Title of the HTML5 document

On May 25, 2009, at 5:54 AM, Sam Ruby wrote:

>

[snip brisk disagreement over meta-issue]

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>> (I'll note that I have no idea which contradictions you are  
>> concerned with, perhaps you can point me to the relevant issues in  
>> the issue tracker or bugzilla.)
>
> The current draft contains content sniffing for feeds.  If  
> accurately describes uniform browser behavior.  It reinterprets  
> HTTP.  It is not part of a vocabulary.  It is not part of associated  
> API.
>
> If it weren't contentious, it wouldn't be an issue.  It is  
> contentious.   One way to address it is to remove the section.   
> Another is to label it properly.

At first glance, it's not clear to me the detailed feed sniffing  
algorithm needs to be in the spec. Sniffing feeds in generic XML types  
is not described at all (presumably left to UA discretion), it's not  
clear to me why sniffing feeds in HTML needs to be described in  
detail. I don't think either sniffing feeds in XML or sniffing feeds  
in HTML is essential to HTML UA interoperability. But perhaps this is  
better discussed on public-html.

Indeed, sniffing of feeds from both XML types and text/html is not  
browser-specific or HTML-specific. For example, NetNewsWire will  
happily process the W3C RSS feed and the intertwingly.net Atom feed  
when they are served as text/html. This may indicate that sniffing is  
better described in a separate spec that is independent of HTML.

> Removing accurate, but incomplete, labels does not address the issue.

I don't think replacing one accurate, but incomplete label with  
another would address the issue either. I hope you can agree with that.

Regards,
Maciej

Received on Monday, 25 May 2009 13:49:46 UTC