Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> Before you answer that, here is a list of consensus requirements on
> the document format:
The fundamental consensus requirement is that the document format MUST
be widely (and internationally) legible.
The internationalization requirement automatically excludes non-ASCII
characters.
Pure ASCII HTML may (or may not) be widely legible. However,
> 2) Readily supported by a wide range of authoring tools
> 3) Conformance can be checked using automatic tools
> 4) Open specification, stable, non proprietary
HTML is already too complex and unstable that there is no hope that
some IETF-specific profiling can be widely and stably supported.
> 5) Reversible, able to recover editing format from publication format
Reversibility does not help if an editor can not recognize (nor input)
some character, which also requires pure ASCII.
> 6) Longeivity, guarantee of being able to interpret them in 1000 years
Then, we should use a format available at least 500 years ago.
Were you using HTML 500 years ago?
Masataka Ohta
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