Re: the market hasn't spoken - it hasn't bothered to listened [was Re: fear of "invisible metadata"]

On Jun 26, 2007, at 3:02 AM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

>> Again, the removal of <img> and <embed> does not in any way  
>> eliminate a graceful degradation path.
>
> It removes a graceful degradation path from the conforming  
> language. It should be possible to write conforming HTML5 documents  
> that still work reasonably in the current generation of browsers.  
> We should not force authors to choose between passing an HTML5  
> conformance checker and making a document that works in the  
> browsers of 2007.

You do understand that by that logic we could not eliminate  
th@headers="id" just to take one example from the HTML5 draft. Only  
after the @scope algorithm is widely deployed would authors be able  
to drop headers="id". In the same way only after <still> was widely  
deployed would authors be able to drop <img>.

Take care,
Rob