AW: XHTML 2.0 and hreflang and type

Ernest,

> Perhaps I was being too subtle. 

definitely. you should draw large letters with bright coloured crayons when talking to me. ;-)
no, it's only that you spotted the problem earlier than i did.

> The point I tried to obliquely raise in my
> previous post is "Why has type been changed from being 
> descriptive to being
> proscriptive?" 

i'm getting interested in this point, too. the more i think of it, the worse it gets. and it is, of course, exactly the same with the proposed change to hreflang. 

we should not only get hreflang back into XHTML 2 (meaning: hreflang as it was until may 2003), we should probably also make people reconsider @type.

> I see no reason why type should be changed from being advisory as it is in
> HTML4 to being proscriptive as it is in the XHTML2 draft.

agreed.


regards,
oskar

Received on Friday, 14 November 2003 13:49:03 UTC