Re: HTML version issue summary?

Yes, obviously the Web has fringe pockets that target specific  
browsers (and then intranets may also have Web pages that target  
specific browers).  I of course mean the portion of the Web where the  
pages are designed for consumption by real-world end users (and then  
also the IE-specific pockets that can't be broken when IE revs).

On Apr 24, 2007, at 6:36 PM, Dannii wrote:

> On 4/25/07, David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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