- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:43:07 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Stefan Eissing <stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de>
- Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Stefan Eissing wrote: > > From http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1144794177&count=1 > "Unfortunately, we're now at a stage where browsers are continuously having to > reverse-engineer each other to determine why they are handling content > differently. A browser can't afford to render any less content than a browser > with more market share, because otherwise users won't switch, and the new > browser will not be adopted." > > By that argument, browsers with largest market share would profit from > changing their content sniffing rules continously. Hmm, somthing is > missing here... The browser the largest market share is already deployed; its behaviour can't be changed. The next version of the browser with the largest market share has no market share. That's one of the reasons Microsoft developed their new <meta> tag that requires pages to opt-in to particular sets of bugs -- they want to guarentee that when they release IE8, it can render exactly everything that IE7 can render. If IE8 had different behaviour than IE7, then people wouldn't adopt it. Now, Microsoft are obviously taking this to an extreme that I think is beyond necessary, but hopefully you understand why it makes no sense to say that "browsers with largest market share would profit from changing their content sniffing rules continously". -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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