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Re: [xml2rfc] RfcMarkup not authoritative, HTML is gone?

Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> Mon, 16 September 2019 15:34 UTC

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From: Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [xml2rfc] RfcMarkup not authoritative, HTML is gone?
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On 2019-09-16 16:54, Julian Reschke wrote:
> On 16.09.2019 16:46, Anders Rundgren wrote:
>> On 2019-09-16 16:27, Paul Kyzivat wrote:
>>> On 9/16/19 1:22 AM, Anders Rundgren wrote:
>>>> On 2019-09-14 11:41, Julian Reschke wrote:
>>>> <snip>
>>>>>
>>>>> RfcMarkup has no official standing (and yes, I like it as well, and it
>>>>> has served us well for a very long time). It apparently generates
>>>>> XHTML,
>>>>> but the content is served as text/html on tools.ietf.org. It might be
>>>>> good to change it to produce valid HTML5.
>>>>
>>>> This in interesting and but also rather confusing since this is the by
>>>> far most used method for communicating RFCs by developers.
>>>
>>> Do you have any data to backup this claim?
>>
>> No, OTOH, since I mostly work with JSON-based stuff, the documents are
>> fairly recent.
>>
>> What I'm sure that I have newer seen in wild are references to PDF RFCs
>> (which apparently are in plain text).
>> ...
> 
> I agree with that, but I don't see how that supports the statement about
> RfcMarkup... (it may well be true, but RfcMarkup is something that was
> created because we did not have "official" HTML renderings of the
> documents, and this is going to change soon anyway).

I don't think the motives for using HTML has been very strong.
Is there actually a single RFC out there using SVG and Unicode?

Anyway, I surely look forward to HTML!

Lists currently look a bit "crammed" in my opinion:
https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-rundgren-signed-http-requests-00.html

Anders

> 
> Best regards, Julian
>

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