[whatwg] Section 1.7 editorial

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Thu Aug 13 21:03:34 PDT 2009


On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
>
> The first such concrete syntax is "HTML5". This is the format 
> recommended for most authors. It is compatible with all legacy Web 
> browsers. If a document is transmitted with the MIME type text/html, 
> then it will be processed as an "HTML5" document by Web browsers.
> 
> The second concrete syntax uses XML, and is known as "XHTML5". When a 
> document is transmitted with an XML MIME type, such as 
> application/xhtml+xml, then it is processed by an XML processor by Web 
> browsers, and treated as an "XHTML5" document.
> 
> The last sentence is awkward. I think making it more parallel with the 
> previous paragraph would help. I.e.
> 
> If a document is transmitted with an XML MIME type, such as 
> application/xhtml+xml, then it will be processed as an "XHTML5" document 
> by Web browsers.

I've tried improving the paragraph. Thanks.

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