At 3:36 PM +0100 2/8/05, Julian Reschke wrote:
Is there anything that we can say about what recipients should do if they are not prepared to tag-soup-parse HTML content (such as something based on XSLT1 in Mozilla or running in a size-constrained environment (does MIDP come with an HTML parser)? Skip the entry? Do not display the content? Display the content including the escaped markup as plain text?
I don't think adding such text helps with interoperability, and is thus not useful. If the person writing an Atom displayer that doesn't know HTML can't figure out what to do on their own, us making suggestions won't help.
Shouldn't we at least give content producers the hint that producing XHTML content is preferred over HTML? (sorry if I'm opening a can of worms here)
Why would one be preferred over the other? They both have their strengths and weaknesses. We're not in the business of saying "this newer one is better".
--Paul Hoffman, Director --Internet Mail Consortium
