Microsoft versioning proposal

From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 22:09:55 +0200 To: "Chris Wilson" <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com> Cc: public-html@w3.org Message-ID: <op.tqqnmtxf64w2qv@id-c0020> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Tuesday, 2 June 2009 18:31:54 GMT

Hi Chris,

Do I understand it correctly that the following is your proposal for HTML  
versioning:

   1. Microsoft implements HTML5.
   2. Microsoft ships an IE release which triggers "HTML5-mode"
      when a page uses <!doctype html5>.
   3. Microsoft fixes bugs.
   4. When more than 0.5% of the content out there uses
      <!doctype html5> Microsoft stops fixing bugs.
   5. Back to step one incrementing the HTML version number by one.

(Instead of <!doctype html5> some other identifier could have been used of  
course, such as the suggested <!doctype html> or <!doctype html><html  
version=5>, etc.)

Cheers,

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Anne van Kesteren
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