Re: Support Existing Content (was: Proposed Design Principles review)

On 30 Apr 2007, at 16:31, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

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>> No reluctance to acknowledge that browsers exist. That would be an  
>> absurd
>> and extreme position. However, I would prefer to maintain a layer  
>> of abstraction
>> between the language and the human being. I think that it is  
>> possible to describe
>> what you mean with respect to preserving the existing meaning of  
>> extant HTML
>> without resorting to descriptions that are based on browser  
>> behaviour and performance.
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> The problem is, the expected presentation of extant HTML is de  
> facto defined by existing browsers. So making such an abstraction  
> abstracts away too much. We can't just look at a document in  
> isolation and guess what the author intended without checking how  
> it renders and behaves in browsers (and other user agents).
>
Isn't the whole idea of the, so-called HTML5, that the page will  
render according to the specification in all browsers?