Re: Versioning and html[5]

On Apr 12, 2007, at 22:46, James Graham wrote:

> the only solution I can see is to force authors to specify their  
> opt-in to the bugs and features of a particular UA  using e.g.  
> <meta name="ua-version" value="IE7"> to specify IE7+ should work in  
> IE7 mode when rendering the document.

I am *not* advocating version-based opt-in to bug fixes, but if the  
opt-in idea were to be generalized, I think the generalization would  
not be declaring the HTML version but something like
<html browser-engine-bugs-as-of='2007-04-12'>.

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Henri Sivonen
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http://hsivonen.iki.fi/

Received on Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:19:41 UTC