- From: Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
- Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 13:38:57 -0800
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Ernest Cline <ernestcline@mindspring.com>, "www-html@w3.org" <www-html@w3.org>
On 4/5/03 1:32 PM, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Tantek [ISO-8859-1] ?lik wrote: >> >> People will write XHTML2 that "happens to work" in current/legacy browsers >> that don't actually have any support for XHTML2, kind of like people are now >> writing/sending XHTML1 that "happens to work" in current/legacy browsers >> that don't actually have any support for XHTML1. > > With XHTML1, that was encouraged by the specs explicitly allowing it. I > hope it will not be encouraged with XHTML2. It doesn't matter whether it will be encouraged or not - people will do it if they can get it to "work". As evidence, note that it was _not_ encouraged for people to do that with XHTML 1.1, but they are doing so anyway, more and more. Tantek
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