- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:50:39 +0300
- To: public-html@w3.org
On Sep 22, 2007, at 04:20, Sander Tekelenburg wrote:
[...]
> Might not "Aim to be backwards compatible" ("as
> in "HTML5 aims to be as backwards compatible with HTML 4 as
> possible") be a
> more descriptive name for this principle?
I'm not sure if you meant the example sentence to reflect an actual
design principle intent but:
HTML5 does *not* aim to be backwards compatible with HTML 4 (as HTML
4 is specified). The aim to make HTML5 UAs compatible with existing
Web content and to make conforming HTML5 documents degrade with some
grace in notable existing browsers.
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Henri Sivonen
hsivonen@iki.fi
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
Received on Saturday, 22 September 2007 09:50:57 UTC