- From: Malcolm Rowe <malcolm-what@farside.org.uk>
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:53:49 +0100
Ian Hickson writes: >> Narrowing a specification to *forbid* the hitherto-correct behavior >> followed by the 95%-dominant UA may achieve a variety of good and useful >> things, but interoperability is manifestly not one of them. I would >> greatly appreciate receiving a genuine answer. > [...] > It does improve interoperability, in that new browsers are more likely to > do the spec thing than just pick a random behaviour. _Defining it_ improves interoperability, agreed. I think that Matthew's point was that defining it to be the _opposite_ from the current market leader can't really be said to improve interoperability in the short term. Regards, Malcolm
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