RE: Versioning and html[5]

Matt Freels wrote:
>If the problem is that IE.next must deal with the fact that authors
>haven't addressed the fact that some future version of IE might
>actually be fully standards-compliant, I don't think that forcing the
>HTML5 spec to cope is appropriate, or even going to help. If, for

Never said it would, or asked the HTML5 spec to solve this for me.

>Wouldn't this breakage be mitigated by allowing users to manually
>fall back on IE7 when needed?

No, that would be punishing IE users.  My mom doesn't understand why one site needs IE7 and one needs IE8.

-Chris