RE: The argument for |bugmode| (was Re: If we have versioning, it should be in an attribute, not the doctype) from Chris Wilson on 2007-04-19 (public-html@w3.org from April 2007)

From: Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:56:10 -0700
To: Magnus Kristiansen <magnusrk+w3c@pvv.org>, Alfonso Martínez de Lizarrondo <amla70@gmail.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <5C276AFCCD083E4F94BD5C2DA883F05A27D9CDDB36@tk5-exmlt-w600.wingroup.windeploy.nt>

Magnus Kristiansen wrote:
>2.b The page didn't bother making a complex workaround for a missing
>feature / non-fatal bug. IE.next fixed this, but nobody benefits from it
>because the author has to make a manual opt-in.

In practice, this rarely happens for any but the most trivial feature or missing bug.  IE is the 80% share browser, web developers have to hack to get it to work.  (Yes, they yell at us for that too.)

-Chris

Received on Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:56:23 UTC