- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:04:16 +0200
- To: "Mike Wilson" <mikewse@hotmail.com>, "'Www-style'" <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:56:02 +0200, Mike Wilson <mikewse@hotmail.com> wrote: > I would say that HTML5 is different for two reasons: > - Its predecessors are well defined in previous specs so the reverse- > engineering step isn't needed (at large that is). That's not true. > - It will be subject to DOCTYPE switching so its incompatible changes > will not break old content. [Then again, what everybody is thinking > may be that CSSOM should also be subject to DOCTYPE switching, > although the spec hints that the described algorithms should be used > for all modes. I would definitely think that IE will need to DOCTYPE > switch and probably only use CSSOM rules in their new standards mode.] This is also not true. > Also, there actually is a report describing the changes between HTML4 > and HTML5 http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/ as you probably know, being > the editor of it. That's a very high level document and doesn't describe changes in detail. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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