- From: scott lewis <sfl@scotfl.ca>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 10:02:03 -0600
- To: Philip TAYLOR <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>
- Cc: HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>
On 1 Jul 2007, at 0837, Philip TAYLOR wrote: > Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: > >> What there is to stop that is that it is not compatible with what >> browsers currently do (the entire parsing algorithm is backwards >> compatible with current browsers — if it isn't, the spec needs to >> be fixed). > > "compatible with" /all/ "current browsers", or "compatible with" > /some/ "current browsers" ? > > Philip Taylor Compatible with the majority of current browsers for the whole of the spec, and compatible with the overwhelming majority of current browsers for the majority of the spec. I realize that is vague language, but unless and until someone builds a compatibility matrix of every HTML5 feature and every existent UA, I don't think we can be more specific. However, documenting current practice was a driving motivation of the WHATWG's HTML5 work, and informs our work through the "Support Existing Content" design principle. scott.
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