- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 01:16:06 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
- Cc: public-appformats@w3.org
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, T.V Raman wrote: > Ian Hickson writes: > > This allows all these technologies to develop in parallel, with UAs > > supporting the versions that the market demand pushes them to support. > > Which effectively makes interoperability impossible, since each vendor > will go off and support his favorite version snapshot -- and claim > "that's the market demand" --- and in practice everyone will try to be > bug-compatible with the majority market-holder. That is of course the > status-quo --- but if it is the status-quo -- then one needn't bother > with specs anyway ... The alternative seems to be to just have the spec require a particular level, but I see no reason to believe that Web browser vendors would pay the slightest attention to such a requirement. Certainly it hasn't had any effect on any of the other technologies that browsers support -- they all support apparently arbitrary subsets of CSS, HTML, SVG, DOM, HTTP, Selectors, etc. The other problem with requiring specific levels of support is that it is quite likely that, for shared technologies like Selectors, different specifications would end up requiring different levels. How would such conflicts be resolved? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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