Dão Gottwald [mailto:dao@design-noir.de] wrote: >You describe very well how and why the status quo causes headaches. All >this should be easy for both web authors and MS, but it isn't. It is in >your interest to change that. Yes. >IMHO, you should: > >- support existing doctype switches for HTML<5, Yes. >- support <!DOCTYPE html> as always-the-latest-version, Not once it's widely used, as we will break back-compat. >- release new versions of IE often and advance aggressively (get > somewhere near standards compliance, and people won't expect IE to be > and remain the buggy browser), Yes. >- and if needed, make new frozen-standard-support modes opt-in, and use > conditional comments for that (which would make you independent from > this very HTML WG and allow you to add new, advanced modes later on > without having to wait for another HTML spec). That only allows authors to fix up their pages relatively easily once they see they're broken. We release a new browser, and web developers and users still say "it's broken". -CReceived on Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:39:58 GMT
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