Re: Backward-compatibility of text/html media type (ACTION-334, ACTION-364)

Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:56:42 +0100, Julian Reschke 
> <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
>> The current way the spec and the registration is written will cause 
>> huge amounts of previously valid text/html content to become invalid. 
>> That can be fixed by obsoleting less stuff in HTML5 or by continuing 
>> to allow HTML 4 to be used for text/html. Or we can continue to ignore 
>> the issue until we try to update the mime type registration, and then 
>> the issue will come up again.
> 
> As I said, the HTML4 strict doctypes are allowed, but transitional and 
> frameset are not because they cause some amount of harm. If you use 
> those doctypes certain parts of CSS will not work according to the 
> standards for instance.

The doctypes are allowed, but contents that uses all of what's allowed 
in these doctypes may not (for instance, head/@profile, 
meta/@name=keywords etc).

So again; it's not just about doctypes.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Wednesday, 3 February 2010 14:14:41 UTC