- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 16:29:34 +0200
- To: public-html WG <public-html@w3.org>, "www-tag@w3.org List" <www-tag@w3.org>
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net> wrote: > If three people want to get together and collaborate, should the fact that > some (and indeed many) may not want to participate be ground for stopping > them? I think it’s fine for 3 people to participate and create a coding style for their blogs[1] that suits their use of non-conforming parsers and publish the coding style on their blogs. Publishing such a house style as a W3C REC will generate another decade of http://xkcd.com/386/ like the infamous Appendix C did for the previous decade. [1] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=19925 together with http://intertwingly.net/blog/2012/11/09/In-defence-of-Polyglot suggest the goals of the polyglot guide might morph as the goals of the coding style on intertwingly.net shift from catering to both to IE8 and browsers that required XHTML for inline SVG (goal obsoleted by the SVG-in-text/html capabilities of IE9 and of browser that have HTML5-compliant parsers) to making the markup work in the HTML5-incompliant *HTML* parser of libxml2. (It’s worth noting that one could already use a compliant HTML parser to convert HTML to XHTML and then use libxml2’s *XML* parser. For example, the Validator.nu HTML Parser comes with a sample tool called nu.validator.htmlparser.tools.HTML2XML .) -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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