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

Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org> Tue, 07 August 2012 14:00 UTC

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Hi Mike,

I left the WG when HTML5 was deliberately backwards-incompatible,
making the update of text/html an error. AFAICT, this appears to have
since been addressed, at least judging by the text here;

http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/#backwards-compatible

I recommend that the interoperability considerations section mention
this. Something as simple as;

"HTML5 is backwards compatible with all previous versions of HTML as
implemented. See
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/#backwards-compatible"

I included "as implemented" because I know the editors were always
keen to point out where multiple independent implementations strayed
from the specifications (and rightly so).

Mark.

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