- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 03:48:49 +0100
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, daniel@glazman.org
- Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>, "www-tag@w3.org List" <www-tag@w3.org>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>, Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com>
Next version of BlueGriffon will permit "only UTF-8 in xhtml5" and will also insert <meta charset="UTF-8"/> in XHTML5. [1] See the bug report. [2] If BG would also also do away with the XML declaration, then I would consider Blue Griffon’s XHTML5 mode as polyglot. Here is hoping. [1] http://bluegriffon.org/post/2012/12/03/BlueGriffon-progress-20121202 [2] http://bugzilla.bluegriffon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460 Leif Halvard Silli Maciej Stachowiak, Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:44:04 -0800: > > On Jan 18, 2013, at 4:25 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net> wrote: >>>> * that there are implementations that support >>>> generating polyglot documents >>> >>> >>> Potential candidates: Planet Venus and Wunderbar. >>> >>> http://www.intertwingly.net/code/venus/ >>> https://github.com/rubys/wunderbar >> >> Even if two implementations written by the same person are independent >> in the sense that they don't share lines of code, they are not >> independent in the sense that they'd demonstrate that the spec is >> clear enough that two different people reading it end up writing >> interoperable software. For that reason, I think citing these two >> implementations as the two independent interoperable implementations >> would fail at least the spirit if not the letter of the Process >> requirement. > > It would also fail the letter of the definition of independent we > used in the CR exit criteria for HTML5 and HTML Canvas 2D Context: > > Independent - Each implementation must be developed by a different > party and cannot share, reuse, or derive from code used by another > qualifying implementation. Sections of code that have no bearing on > the implementation of this specification are exempt from this > requirement. > > This definition of independent is modeled on the one used by other > WGs such as CSS, so I think it's generally understood that way. > > Cheers, > Maciej > >
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