Re: HTML interpreter vs. HTML user agent

Can I still expect a reply to the other questions I raised in the email?  
Because this was a mostly rethorical question and the least interesting  
one, at least to me. Thanks.

On Thu, 28 May 2009 20:12:31 +0200, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>  
wrote:
> Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 May 2009 16:20:52 +0200, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
>> wrote:
>>> Permit me to turn that around... can we precisely identify in which
>>>  contexts the "#content-type-sniffing:-feed-or-html" section is
>>> meant to apply?
>>  Doesn't HTML5 do that?
>
> HTML 5 does do that.  There have been assertions that HTML 5 defines
> operational behavior that may vary between applications[1].  This may or
> may not be an example of what Roy was referring to.  Even if it is an
> example, it may be one that we come to rough consensus on anyway.
>
> Without necessarily resolving each at this time, I would like to collect
> a representative sample of the behaviors that Roy was referring to.  At
> this time, I would like to thank Henri Sivonen for providing such an
> example[2].
>
> - Sam Ruby
>
> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009May/0513.html
> [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009May/0525.html


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