Re: argument for deprecating BLOCKQUOTE in canonical HTML/XHTML

On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:30:47 +0200, Gareth Hay <gazhay@gmail.com> wrote:
> So we can't improve on anything then, as we have to make sure a page  
> written in 1994 still works in a modern browser.
> This backward compatibility argument just gets sillier by the minute.

The HTML5 proposal has made many enhancements to HTML and doesn't break  
backwards compatibility. Not of all has been proven of course, but several  
implemented parts of HTML5 have shown that it is possible to do this.

   http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/


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Anne van Kesteren
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Received on Tuesday, 3 April 2007 13:47:33 UTC