- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:54:54 +0200
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- CC: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org
On 09.04.2010 10:18, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > On Apr 9, 2010, at 1:08 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: > >> On 08.04.2010 22:37, Ian Hickson wrote: >>> ... >>> That does make sense. Would it be acceptable then to just make the >>> pragma >>> non-conforming, thus removing any valid syntax at all? >>> ... >> >> Nope. >> >> The syntax of the value isn't controlled by HTML. >> >> It's ok to add warnings and recommendations about what better >> alternatives are there. > > What Ian suggests would not affect the syntax of the value at all. Only > a particular set of http-equiv values are currently conforming. These And that's a problem in itself. I consider this a bug that needs to be fixed. Making more values non-conforming thus makes things worse. > Also, making Content-Language nonconforming in the base spec would still > leave it free to be defined as an extension, since http-equiv is an > extension point (albeit one with a wiki-based registration mechanism). Which is *another* issue we'll have to resolve. > ... Best regards, Julian
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