Re: TAG Decision on Rescinding the request to the HTML WG to develop a polyglot guide

Henri, HTMLwg co-chairs and TAG and the editor (Eliot),

Let me state that I *can* live with Henri's proposed addition to 
Polyglot Markup.

I do agree that Polyglot Markup is not the only method for working with 
HTML in a XML tool chain, and I now agree that it is fair and 
potentially clarifying that it mentions that. In fact,  (depending on 
your glasses) there is already a brief mention of this in the 
introduction. Henri's proposed text could probably be worked into the 
existing wording there. 

I take back that specific rewording proposal(s) I made in the bug. If 
Eliot and Henri feel they can incorporate some of my perspective, then 
that's great, but I feel confident that whatever Henri proposes will be 
good enough. And in general, I regret that I did not more eagerly 
accepted Henri's attempt to create agreement.

Thanks for an interesting debate. I hope the participants also felt 
that came some good things out it.

With regards,
Leif H Silli


Henri Sivonen, Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:14:45 +0200:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 3:13 AM, Noah Mendelsohn 
> <nrm@arcanedomain.com> wrote:
>> Henri:
>> 
>> The TAG has discussed your request [1] that the TAG rescind its request to
>> the HTML WG to "create a document in TR space that specifies how one can
>> create a set of bits which can be served EITHER as text/html OR as
>> application/xhtml+xml, which will work identically in a browser in both
>> cases".
> 
> Thank you.
> 
>> We support the publication of
>> the Polyglot draft as a Recommendation, with the addition of a Scope 
>> section
>> that makes the intended uses of polyglot clear.
> 
> I have filed https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20707 
> about this.
> 
> -- 
> Henri Sivonen
> hsivonen@iki.fi
> http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
>

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