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Bug 11864 - section "12 IANA considerations 12.1 text/html" suggests: "This registration is for community review and will be submitted to ...registration with IANA." I understand from this that it it intended to replace RFC 2854. If so I have a problem with the stat
Summary: section "12 IANA considerations 12.1 text/html" suggests: "This registration ...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
Depends on:
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Reported: 2011-01-25 17:02 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:14 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-01-25 17:02:37 UTC 
Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top

Comment:
section
"12 IANA considerations
12.1 text/html"
suggests: "This registration is for community review and will be submitted to
...registration with IANA." I understand from this that it it intended to
replace RFC 2854. 
If so I have a problem with the statement later in the same section:
"Published specification:
    This document is the relevant specification. Labeling a resource with the
text/html type asserts that the resource is an HTML document using the HTML
syntax."

It seems that the definition says that all html documents currently on the web
are HTML5 documents. This is clearly not the situation. the registration of
text/html media type should recognize that there are many versions of HTML
used on the web, as RFC 2854 does.

Nir Dagan
nir@nirdagan.com

Posted from: 109.66.1.55
Comment 1 Ms2ger 2011-01-26 20:01:49 UTC 
WFM. The RFC you cite states

   Published specification:
      The text/html media type is now defined by W3C Recommendations;
      the latest published version is [HTML401].  In addition, [XHTML1]
      defines a profile of use of XHTML which is compatible with HTML
      4.01 and which may also be labeled as text/html.

Note also that it states "...an HTML document", not "...an HTML5 document".

I believe this has also been discussed to death several times in the WG.
Comment 2 Julian Reschke 2011-01-26 20:16:27 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> WFM. The RFC you cite states
> 
>    Published specification:
>       The text/html media type is now defined by W3C Recommendations;
>       the latest published version is [HTML401].  In addition, [XHTML1]
>       defines a profile of use of XHTML which is compatible with HTML
>       4.01 and which may also be labeled as text/html.
> 
> Note also that it states "...an HTML document", not "...an HTML5 document".
> 
> I believe this has also been discussed to death several times in the WG.

"ms2ger", I'm not sure why you're closing bugs (see decision policy, btw).

That being said, this is related to <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/53> which is still open.
Comment 3 Ms2ger 2011-01-26 20:28:50 UTC 
Excellent, "julian". Thank you for the pointer.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 5744 ***
Comment 4 Julian Reschke 2011-01-26 20:38:17 UTC 
No, this is not a duplicate of 5744. It (In reply to comment #3)
> Excellent, "julian". Thank you for the pointer.
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 5744 ***

Bug 5744 contains discussion relevant to ISSUE-53, but this doesn't make *this* bug a duplicate.
Comment 5 Maciej Stachowiak 2011-01-26 21:06:00 UTC 
I agree that this bug is not a duplicate.
Comment 6 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-02-16 09:50:41 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: The HTML specification subsumes all previous HTML specifications, and as such it is indeed the appropriate reference for text/html. (Note that this is consistent with past text/html registrations.)
Comment 7 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:14:36 UTC 
mass-move component to LC1