RE: Versioning and html[5]

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

Received on Friday, 13 April 2007 21:55:54 UTC