- From: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:11:56 +0100
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On 19 Apr 2007, at 07:54, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > On Apr 19, 2007, at 04:18, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > >> It would really help if you would actually do some research about >> (or at least listen to) what authors actually want, instead of >> being presumptuous. > > To find out what authors want (in the sense that is useful for > designing a bug mode switch that has to work with the real author > behavior in the common case), one should look at the reactions of > authors to past stimuli (instances of browser changes, etc.) > instead of believing what they say they want. Agreed. Seeming the number of people complained at the bugfixes in IE7, and blamed MS for them (which is unfair, as they were reliant on bugs), it seems perfectly possible that a larger change would cause this on a larger scale. Lachlan, do you have any evidence from the past, from when there have been such changes, of people being against having a switch to retain the previous rendering? - Geoffrey Sneddon
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