- From: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 05:58:35 +0200
- To: www-international@w3.org
Richard Ishida wrote:
> We expect to publish a final version in one to two weeks.
It's quite nice, but doesn't directly address the two or three
backwards compatibility issues:
1 - ' doesn't work everywhere, XHTML 1.0 C.16 recommends
to use ' - for "visible with any browser" extremists
(= me) even   is "better" than (or  )
2 - hex. NCRs don't work everywhere, that's less important for
almost all NCRs, but for some "known" cases it could make
sense to use decimal NCRs.
3 - avoiding NCRs in mostly US-ASCII / Latin-1 / windows-1252
documents by switching to UTF-8 is not backwards compatible
and therefore not always the best choice.
(2) and (3) are direct conflicts with Charmod, that shouldn't
be the last link near the end, but the first link at the top.
Or better use Charmod as both first and last link. Bye, Frank
Received on Wednesday, 20 July 2005 04:00:26 UTC