Re: A Compromise to the Versioning Debate from Dão Gottwald on 2007-04-21 (public-html@w3.org from April 2007)

From: Dão Gottwald <dao@design-noir.de>
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 00:35:05 +0200
To: liorean <liorean@gmail.com>
CC: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <462A9199.70908@design-noir.de>

liorean schrieb:
>> Matthew Raymond schrieb:
>> >    I agree about having space-separated strings to allow bug modes for
>> > multiple vendors.
> 
> On 21/04/07, Dão Gottwald <dao@design-noir.de> wrote:
>> I don't. We want user agents to be interoperable. It's unlikely that IEx
>> will support the FooBrowser7 bugmode, for example.
> 
> That's not how bugmodes would work.

But that's how they would have to work for being interoperable.

> Should more browsers
> than IE choose to use bugmodes, those browsers may very well have
> bugmodes that are entirely incompatible with the bugmodes of IE.

And that goes completely agains the purpose of a standard.

--Dao

Received on Saturday, 21 April 2007 22:35:18 UTC