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Re: Vendor Support for XHTML2 [was Re: role cardinality [was: Re: ARIA Proposal ]]

From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:12:18 +0900
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To: Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>, scott lewis <sfl@scotfl.ca>

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Scott,

Robert Burns (3 oct. 2007 - 12:56) :
> My point was that nothing in those documents tells us about the big  
> picture regarding the intent of those major vendors with respect to  
> XHTML2 or HTML5 (other than that they made intellectual property  
> available to this WG as do we all). So I would still say that we  
> members of the HTML WG  (humble or otherwise) could not possibly  
> know the intent of the browser vendors regarding XHTML2 support".  
> Certainly the citations you provided change nothing about that.

Robert is right. These documents say nothing about the intents.

And even when a vendor is making a statement, it can change its  
position later on depending on marketing and market constraints.
It has already happened in the past.
http://www.bestkungfu.com/archive/date/2004/07/on-implementing-svg/
http://www.xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1865


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