- From: Craig Francis <craig@synergycms.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:18:31 +0100
- To: "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Philip & Le Khanh <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>, www-archive@w3.org, HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>
On 21 Jun 2007, at 16:57, Philip Taylor (Webmaster) wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > >> It's not really clear to me that this is an interesting question. >> I mean, once HTML6 is out, who cares what HTML5 says? > > Everyone who has written an HTML 5 document. I have been > creating web pages ever since HTML 2.0 (many on this list > will have been creating them for far longer), and every > page that I have validated in the past will validate today, > because the specification against which it is written is > enshrined in its DOCTYPE directive. I agree with Philip here... I have written many websites, and most (if not all) validate to a specific spec, usually XHTML 1.0. If the goal-posts move, and there was no declaration of which spec version I have written to, then without me making any changes, then all of my websites will become invalid overnight... for example, because I try to use the @summary attribute on all tables. Unfortunately, I build websites for a living, and I will not be able to spend weeks/months re-checking every web page I have ever made, so that I can claim to always write valid code. Craig
Received on Saturday, 23 June 2007 13:20:52 UTC