- From: David J Woolley <djw@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:58:56 +0000
- To: www-amaya@w3.org
> Web pages. In fact the future should be a XML version of HTML (Voyager) which > will reject invalid documents. I think it will be very difficult to get rid of support for current generation bad HTML (and deprecated features, like <font color) in commercial browsers, because users will see this as a failure of the browser to render the HTML, rather than the fact that the HTML was broken (or obsolete) in the first place. Commercial browser writers can't afford to take the high position because failure to render a page will be seen as their fault, and, even if it doesn't cause people to dissuade others from using that browser, it will still cause an increase in their support costs. (I think a lot of the reason that current browsers accept broken HTML are to do with avoiding support calls - something similar is IE's tendency to ignore media type information and assume that something beginning <html> is text/html, even if correctly described as text/plain.)
Received on Thursday, 21 January 1999 09:13:48 UTC