Re: Version information

This does not follow.

In hundreds/thousands of years how will they know which version of  
HTML they need to implement to view today's content?

This is definitely a benefit of version information within the  
markup. In the future when someone comes across a document with HTML  
they know exactly which specification they need to implement.

- Elliott Sprehn


On Apr 6, 2007, at 4:28 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:

>
> Second, to enable people in hundreds or thousands of years to write
> browsers and view today's content, even when there are no computers
> capable of running today's browsers. If we don't do this, we are  
> basically
> throwing away our entire heritage, making it impossible for  
> archeologists
> of the future to learn about our culture.