I'll start with a simple comment -- the following is wrong in
<http://www.hal.com/%7Econnolly/html-spec/Tags.html>:
Obsolete head elements
META
A wrapper for an HTTP element
META cannot be an obsolete element because it has never existed in past
versions of HTML.
META should be a proposed element, with syntax and semantics fully
defined in the spec as per our prior discussion on www-html.
[I'm not surprised that it has not yet been included, I'm just making the
claim that it should be included as a proposed element before the 2.0 spec
can be considered complete].
Furthermore, all proposed elements should be fully defined in the spec
if their definition is known, and a "Proposed extensions to the DTD"
section should be included as well. If the definition is not known,
the purpose of the element should just be considered a "future direction"
and lumped together with other undefined stuff in some descriptive appendix.
[My editorial comment for the day]
....Roy Fielding ICS Grad Student, University of California, Irvine USA
(fielding@ics.uci.edu)
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