- From: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:26:32 +0100
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On 31 Aug 2009, at 11:45, Henri Sivonen wrote: > It seems to me that there's a difference of underlying premises here. > Premise 1: HTML5 obsoletes HTML 2.0, 3.2 and 4.01 and XHTML 1.x. > New authoring must use the latest level of the language. > Premise 2: HTML 2.0, 3.2, 4.01 and 5 and XHTML 1.x are all > Recommended. It is appropriate to author new pages using older > levels of the language. I think my suggested media type registration text is a reasonable compromise between these. It notes the existence of various different versions of HTML, but gives user agents the freedom to treat them all as HTML5 if they wish: http://www.w3.org/mid/1251457061.2394.75.camel@ophelia2.g5n.co.uk -- Toby A Inkster <mailto:mail@tobyinkster.co.uk> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
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