Le 4 déc. 2006 à 6:14, Mike Schinkel a écrit :
It does matter. It is not just one of the important things, it is THE
important thing. Having two divergent HTMLs will create problems
for a vast
number of people and will significantly reduce efficiencies for
anyone that
has to deal with it. Worse, it could cause the non-technical public to
decide that HTML its just too much trouble, and THAT would be a
tragedy.
I would tend to think that people would say well-formed XHTML is too
much trouble, not HTML or pseudo-XHTML served with text/html. But
that's not really better.
The irony is I'm not proposing much; just have as a design axiom
that the
trajectory of HTML5 and XHTML should aimed toward convergence when
technically possible.
I don't like the word "convergence" as you use it: because we cannot
change how HTML or XML is parsed there cannot be any real
convergence. All we can do is decide what is valid and what is not
within HTML, and to some extend within XHTML, and thus decide what is
valid and what is not within the common subset at the intersection of
the two. I don't see the use of the common subset as convergence, but
as a way to avoid reimplementing the wheel to have two different
outputs where it would be not necessary to do so.
Michel Fortin
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