- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:14:02 +0100
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- CC: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, www-tag@w3.org
Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:56:42 +0100, Julian Reschke > <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: >> The current way the spec and the registration is written will cause >> huge amounts of previously valid text/html content to become invalid. >> That can be fixed by obsoleting less stuff in HTML5 or by continuing >> to allow HTML 4 to be used for text/html. Or we can continue to ignore >> the issue until we try to update the mime type registration, and then >> the issue will come up again. > > As I said, the HTML4 strict doctypes are allowed, but transitional and > frameset are not because they cause some amount of harm. If you use > those doctypes certain parts of CSS will not work according to the > standards for instance. The doctypes are allowed, but contents that uses all of what's allowed in these doctypes may not (for instance, head/@profile, meta/@name=keywords etc). So again; it's not just about doctypes. Best regards, Julian
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