- From: Alfonso Martínez de Lizarrondo <amla70@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:08:20 +0200
- To: "Dão Gottwald" <dao@design-noir.de>
- Cc: "Lachlan Hunt" <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, "Chris Wilson" <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>, public-html@w3.org
> 1.c We have _one_ more opt-in, namely <!DOCTYPE html>, and MS doesn't > officially support it until the standards compliance is reasonable. > So you say that MS shouldn't release new bugfixes related to standards rendering "until the standards compliance is reasonable"? What's reasonable? How can you check that everything that you want is fixed if they don't release new versions? I would expect the new bugfixes to uncover more problems that until now they weren't important because other things were so broken that nobody tried to use them that way, and of course there are regressions to be expected if only MS test their browser. Chris is saying that they plan to use <!DOCTYPE html> to trigger the new standards mode, but only MS knows how many fixes they plan to add in that mode, and by the way that he talks he seems to acknowledge that not all the bugs will be fixed in the next version, so they want to have a way to differentiate future rendering modes. I don't like the idea of having to deal as a web author with several IE engines at the same time, so I would like to have a way to be sure that future IEs don't break my pages, and when the percentage of users of the new version is high enough then embrace the new rendering modes for pages that I care and develop.
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