> What we *could* do is give each incremental advance its own temporary
> mime type, like text/x-html-tables, text/x-html-maths, etc.
Hmm how many different permulations by HTML 2.8? What about
text/x-html3; tables=no; maths=yes; figure=yes; style=yes; applets=no;
Then every so often the whole standard gets an overhall and there is a
new standard equivalent to the previous one with all add-ons set to yes?
(Plus making html.reccomended stricter each time etc). At which point
it goes up a major version number, or level, or both, or whatever the
number is being called ;-) at which point we have
text/html; level=3
Just a suggestion. Of couse,in the real world, documents with tables
are being served up as plain text/html and browsers ignore parameters
to media types. Oh well. Click here if your browser supports maths
but not tables ;-( barf.
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