- From: Dão Gottwald <dao@design-noir.de>
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:47:38 +0200
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- CC: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, public-html@w3.org
Henri Sivonen schrieb: > On Apr 16, 2007, at 12:34, Dão Gottwald wrote: > >> I see. But then the name of the attribute should make clear that it's >> IE-specific, > > Why would designed-for-ie-version='7' be better than e.g. > tested-with-current-browser-versions-on='2007-04-16'? 1) Author's shouldn't expect other browsers to care about that attribute. 2) Not all authors use latest browser versions. >> and as an interim solution, > > Interim solutions on the Web tend to become permanent... Nevertheless, we should try hard to avoid it in this case. >> it shouldn't be part of the spec. > > Well, at least conformance checkers would need to allow the attribute. I don't think that's a requirement. > Otherwise, Microsoft would most likely come up with a switch that isn't > noticed by conformance checkers and, as a consequence, would not > round-trip nicely with XML tools. That's a tradeoff that Microsoft will have to make. Note that both scenarios already exist today, with non-standardized attributes (e.g. contenteditable) and conditional comments. --Dao
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