Philip Taylor wrote: > > Gareth Hay wrote: > > > > That way, you visit a page that you used to (google, bank, etc) browser > > uses 'old' mode. > > You visit an HTML5 page, browser uses the new mode. > > > > Why is this a problem? > > I'm absolutely certain (100%) that it is /not/ a problem, > except in the minds of those who would like it perceived > as such[...] To jeopardise this opportunity by insisting that the > browser use the same parsing/rendering algorithms for legacy > ("tag soup") documents as for new ("well formed") documents > is insane, IMHO. I'm not a browser implementor, so I refuse to idly speculate as to how hard of a problem keeping separate modes would actually be. However, several browser implementors here have made it quite clear[1] that it is, in their considered opinion, very hard, even unacceptably hard. I suggest that we believe them. 1. e.g., http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Apr/1609.htmlReceived on Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:23:31 GMT
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