Re: A CSS equivalent of HTML's DOCTYPE trigger

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Matthew Wilcox <elvendil@gmail.com> wrote:

> HTML has a useful property whereby the DOCTYPE was hijacked to trigger
> standards compliant rendering modes.
>
> Some of CSS is sub-optimally implemented from a designer/typographer
> standpoint and there's not much tht can be done about it by us without
> breaking backward compatibility.
>
> Has thought been put into an equivalent strategy for CSS? For example,
> opting into which branch or module we'd like to work?
>
> I bring this up because I think the way typography is handled in CSS is
> simply fundamentally flawed from a typographers perspective, and
> un-resquable as is. If we could wind back the clock we could fix it, but we
> can't. How about we reset the clock? Allowing the author to choose which
> versions of the spec to adhere to?
>
> That would allow us to, for example, re-write the way that font's are used
> in CSS, without breaking backward compatibility. User Agents that don't
> understand the trigger would simply ignore it.
>
> Thoughts?
>

SVG got <DOCTYPE SVG>, i dunno CSS

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