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Re: HTML version issue summary?

From: Dannii <curiousdannii@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:36:02 +1000
Message-ID: <af3e73120704241836w4a2b9fbfse74e5d869076839f@mail.gmail.com>
To: "David Hyatt" <hyatt@apple.com>
Cc: "Dan Connolly" <connolly@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org 
On 4/25/07, David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com> wrote:
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>
> Just because working with 95-99% of the Web is good enough for
> alternative browsers like Safari, Mozilla, and Opera does not mean it
> is good enough for IE.  Currently they work with 100%, and asking
> them to make breaking changes to deliberately be less compatible,
> even if that amounts to < 1% of the Web, is patently ridiculous.


IE in no way works for 100% of the web. And even if they did... they should
suffer the consequences of bad design in the past. 'Don't break the web'
should only apply to things that were implemented properly in the past.
Received on Wednesday, 25 April 2007 01:36:03 GMT

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