- From: Dão Gottwald <dao@design-noir.de>
- Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 11:09:56 +0200
- To: Alan Dean <alan.dean@gmail.com>
- CC: public-html@w3.org, Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com
Alan Dean schrieb: > > Chris, > > Re: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Apr/0612.html > > I can understand why the IE team is loath to take actions that 'break > the web' in terms of backwards compatibility, quirks mode, etc. > > My question is this: > > 1) IE7 will not render an xhtml document presented as > application/xhtml+xml. > 2) There is, therefore, nothing to break (it already doesn't work). > 3) Given 1 and 2 above, is it feasible to support a 'clean' html[5] > when presented as application/xhtml+xml and preserve backwards > compatibility when presented with text/html? Roughly the same question can be (and was) asked for <!DOCTYPE html>. (It is supported by IE7, but not used in today's documents.) Ideally, I want IE to have one decent rendering mode for HTML5 and above, regardless of the mime type. If Microsoft supports such a mode before the significant bugs are fixed and without an opt-in, it'll be just another quirks mode and we need yet another doctype or mime-type switch. --Dao
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