- From: Terry Allen <terry@ora.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 15:42:04 -0700
- To: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@beach.w3.org>, bsittler@prism.nmt.edu (Benjamin C. W. Sittler), www-html@w3.org
- Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org
Dan writes: | In message <199507282207.QAA05513@yellow.nmt.edu>, Benjamin C. W. Sittler write | s: | >What should the content-type: header for HTML 3 be? | | >text/html; level=3 | | This agrees with: | | "Toward Graceful Deployment of Tables in HTML" | http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/table-deployment.html | | which is the closest thing to a spec on this issue. I have had | no negative comments on this syntax. But it doesn't deal with Deprecated and Recommended versions of an HTML DTD (we have them in 2.0), and you note: Open Issues Detailed Instructions We need another document detailing how to this soluion is implemented with the CERN and NCSA servers, using the multi feature, and CGI conversion scripts. Volunteers? HTML 2.5, i.e. 2.0 + tables? Should we suggest that browser implementors who wish to support tables, but not the rest of the 3.0 spec should specify level=2.5 in their Accept: headers? x-html until 3.0 spec is published? Since there is no published HTML 3.0 spec, should information providers use text/x-html; level=3 rather than text/html; level=3? So while "text/html; level=3" may be said to agree with this document, that doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. I'm not saying it isn't, only that the issue is far from solved. As Benjamin is using the DTD in draft-ietf-html-specv3-00.txt , which uses Deprecated and Recommended, as well as Obsoleted, what is he to do wrt those variants? Punt in favor of a doctype decl that indicates more clearly what version of this DTD is involved? Regards, -- Terry Allen (terry@ora.com) O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Editor, Digital Media Group 101 Morris St. Sebastopol, Calif., 95472 A Davenport Group sponsor. For information on the Davenport Group see ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/davenport/README.html or http://www.ora.com/davenport/README.html
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