- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:21:19 -0700
- To: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
- Cc: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org
On Apr 24, 2007, at 6:16 PM, David Hyatt wrote: > Versioning is like a vendor-neutral opt-in hook. Browsers can then > use their own opt-in hooks and use the vendor-neutral hook once > they are confident in their compliance with the spec. > Theoretically IE might do something like this with my proposal: > > IE 8 ships with partial HTML5 support, uses custom opt-in #1 > IE8.1 ships with more complete HTML5 support, uses custom opt-in #2 > IE9 is the point where MSFT decides they've nailed it, now they use > the HTML5 version as opt-in #3 Are you proposing that IE8 and IE8.1 should not treat content that had the HTML5 doctype but no custom opt-in as HTML4.01? That would require every HTML5 document on the web to include the IE-proprietary opt-in, even if they didn't depend on IE quirks. Regards, Maciej
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