- From: Eric J. Bowman <eric@bisonsystems.net>
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:46:10 -0700
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>
- Cc: "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
Larry Masinter wrote: > > I had a recent insight about polyglot. > Interesting. By your definition, the solution I'm advocating here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/19240 Is to make a "polyglot API" instead of using conneg/versioning. > > However, in 2013, the important use case for Polyglot is to allow the > transitionfrom XHTML (the previous W3C Recommendation path) to HTML. > Except you lose me there, in that I would say the use case for PG is to allow the coexistence of HTML and XHTML. Otherwise we're deprecating stream processing on the Web, enabled by application/xhtml+xml, which still seems like a desirable architectural feature for those who know how to exploit it. -Eric
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