- From: Mike Schinkel <w3c-lists@mikeschinkel.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:55:19 -0400
- To: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Kornel Lesinski wrote: > Microsoft could focus on making it easier for webmasters to recognize > their mistakes and fix the code and then any necessary breakage > wouldn't be affecting so many sites. > > Many authors don't have slightest idea that there's something wrong > with their code. This can be solved - make standard IE distribution > warn about deprecated features and problems exposed by invalid code. > Warnings don't have to be obnoxious, they just have to be noticeable > in the standard IE, because very few authors will download additional > toolkits/SDKs, but all of them test their websites in a vanilla IE > version. > When a potentially important bug is planned to be axed in a future > version of IE, you can display more prominent warning in an earlier > version. Then nobody will get surprised when next version comes out > and probably most websites will be fixed by then. +1 -- -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org http://atlanta-web.org - http://t.oolicio.us
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