Re: Silently deprecating XHTML

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Current votes: None.


On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:02:19 +0100, Frank Ellermann  =

<hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> Or maybe simply say BCP47.
>
> Better, that automatically gives you 4646bis when
> it's ready, together with the RFC 4647 ranges, I'm
> still confident that this will work for your HTML5
> purposes (=3D nothing extravagant wrt language tags).

I think we are all on the same page, by the way. It's just that the  =

current text in HTML5 was probably written before RFC4646 and that  =

referring BCP47 wasn't common practice.


>> See also:
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Jan/thread.html#m=
sg267
>
> I've submitted both lists to GMane for subscription,
> the latter flagged for "member-only" write access.

http://blog.whatwg.org/w3c-restarts-html-effort has a simple set of  =

instructions on how to join the HTML WG.


>> You mean the lastModified attribute of the Document
>> object?
>
> Yes, the beast in 2.1.2 with 11 points explaining the
> syntax in prose.  The IETF ABNF isn't too bad, I got
> used to it, lots of RFCs use it, and it will be soon
> a full Internet standard (STD).

I'll leave this up to Ian.


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