- From: Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:42:52 -0700
- To: Dão Gottwald <dao@design-noir.de>
- CC: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Dão Gottwald [mailto:dao@design-noir.de] wrote: >Chris Wilson schrieb: >>> - support <!DOCTYPE html> as always-the-latest-version, >> >> Not once it's widely used, as we will break back-compat. > >You should be able to make two release cycles before this spec is done >(I don't even mean a recommendation) _and_ widely used. So this is >directly glued to the next point. If you manage to fix /most/ DOM and >CSS quirks not for standards/quirks mode but for <!DOCTYPE html> within >two release, which one should expect given Microsoft's resources and >your proclaimed commitment to adopt standards, you will be able to >escape the doom loop of backwards compatibility. Possibly. I still think it's smart to future-proof by saying "this content is HTML as of HTML5" rather than "this content is HTML". -Chris
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