- From: Bill Mason <w3c@accessibleinter.net>
- Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 00:23:02 -0800
- To: public-evangelist@w3.org
At 08:35 AM 12/30/2002, Nigel Peck wrote: >And there's no way Browser manufacturers will move browsers to a non >backwards compatible language until a very high percentage of users are >aware of it. I would venture to say that's the last criterion that will play a factor, not the main one. Does the average user today care if the page they're viewing is written in HTML 3.2, XHTML 1.0, or typed out by a hamster inside the browser? As long as they get the experience from the page they expect, my guess would be no. You won't see browser manufacturers abandon backwards compatibility with the existing iterations of HTML unless a very high percentage of sites have abandoned it. Don't expect to see that happen for many, many years. The sheer volume of legacy content will preclude it, because there is no good rationale to forward-convert all that legacy code into a new HTML version. Bill Mason Accessible Internet w3c@accessibleinter.net http://www.accessibleinter.net/
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