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Re: [ietf-types] Update to text/html registration

Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> Fri, 10 August 2012 17:17 UTC

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Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:17:50 +0000
From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
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On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, Julian Reschke wrote:
> 
> But media type updates are not supposed to make existing content 
> invalid; thus the updated text/html registration needs to state that, 
> for instance, HTML4 strict can continue to be labelled text/html.

This is obviously not true since the current text/html registration 
doesn't say HTML2 is valid, instead referencing HTML4 and XHTML1.

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