Re: Backward-compatibility of text/html media type (ACTION-334, ACTION-364)

On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 12:32 +0000, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
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> Three points:
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>  1) As Julian says, DOCTYPE is not the only issue;
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>  2) Ian Hickson's response appears to me to confuse two separate
>     issues -- we're not contesting that the HTML 5 spec can define
>     conformance as it currently does -- previous HTML specs have
>     eliminated features and ruled old documents non-conforming to the
>     new spec.  What's at issue is whether or not such documents can be
>     labelled 'text/html'.  Equating the class of "can be served as
>     text/html" with the class "conforms to this spec." is what we are
>     objecting to

It is? I don't recall objecting to that.

Given a suitable definition of "conforms to this spec", I think I'm
OK with equating it with "can be served as text/html".

>  -- that's _not_ something previous HTML specs have
>     done.


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