On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Dan Connolly wrote: > > Recent drafts say: > > [[ > 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* > ]] > -- http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/iana.html#text-html > > And *the HTML syntax* doesn't include doctypes that are widely used in > documents that conform to HTML 2, 3.2, and 4.x specs and XHTML 1.x specs. > > I think it's reasonable for consumers to treat those documents the way > that the HTML 5 spec says treat them, but I don't think it's reasonable > to say that those documents aren't text/html any more; I don't even > think it's reasonable to insist that people stop producing HTML 4.x > documents. I doubt that's really what anybody meant, but it's what > the document says.
Is this a new problem with the text/html registration in HTML5, or is this a long-standing problem? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
