- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 21:41:43 +0200
- To: "Steven Pemberton" <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
- Cc: <w3c-html-wg@w3.org>, <www-html@w3.org>, <voyager-issues@mn.aptest.com>
* Steven Pemberton wrote:
>The definition of what text/html means is defined not by XHTML 1.0, but by
>RFC 2854. The reason that Appendix C is informative is because if you follow
>those guidelines, you may find that your documents will work with user
>agents that accept text/html. It does not define conformance, nor are the
>guidelines mandatory: you don't have to follow them, but if you don't, don't
>expect your document to work on old user agents.
Neither RFC 2854 nor XHTML 1.0 First Edition make it easy to come to
this conclusion, see [1], hence I like to see this clarified a bit in
XHTML 1.0 SE.
[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2001Oct/0065.html
Thanks,
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