- From: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:10:14 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Thursday 19 March 2009, L. David Baron wrote: > I think it is good for the progress of the Web if browsers implement > the same standards, since standards only become useful to Web > authors once either (a) a significant portion of their users use > browsers implementing the standard, or (b) nearly all of their users > do. (Which of (a) or (b) depends on whether the use of the standard > is essential to viewing the Web page or an optional enhancement.) > > Therefore, I'm going to suggest that browser implementors start > sharing regularly lists of what parts of CSS they believe they > implement and what parts they are likely to work on in the near > future, so that other browser makers can adjust their plans > accordingly in order to advance the progress of the Web. Browsers and many other CSS implementations have been publishing lists of what they implement since many years. E.g.: HTMLlayout: http://www.terrainformatica.com/htmlayout/cssmap.whtm IE: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc351024(VS.85,printer).aspx Konqueror: http://www.konqueror.org/css/ Mozilla: https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Mozilla_CSS_support_chart Opera: http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/presto211/css/index.dml PDFreactor: http://www.realobjects.com/fileadmin/products/pdfreactor/doc_html/manual/apa.html Prince: http://princexml.com/doc/6.0/ Agreeing on what to implement in the *next* software versions would certainly be useful, but so far, whenever I asked implementers, they said they weren't at liberty to discuss that. Is Mozilla maybe trying to provoke its competitors a bit? :-) Bert -- Bert Bos ( W 3 C ) http://www.w3.org/ http://www.w3.org/people/bos W3C/ERCIM bert@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 92 38 76 92 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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