- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:42:03 +0100
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Stefan Eissing <stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Ian Hickson wrote: > ... > 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. > ... Following that reasoning, people wouldn't adopt IE7 instead of IE6. But they do. May be not as many and as happily as Microsoft would like, but they do. BR, Julian
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