- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:13:36 +0200
- To: Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Also sprach Chris Wilson: > >Authors want consistency across implementations more than they want an > >ideal spec that isn't implemented anywhere. > > I'd think we could give them a third option - an ideal spec that > all implementations converge on. It seems, though, that you are advocating a model where spec work is restarted once >0.5% of the content starts referring to the ideal spec? AnneVK asked you a question about this: | Hi Chris, | | Do I understand it correctly that the following is your proposal for HTML | versioning: | | 1. Microsoft implements HTML5. | 2. Microsoft ships an IE release which triggers "HTML5-mode" | when a page uses <!doctype html5>. | 3. Microsoft fixes bugs. | 4. When more than 0.5% of the content out there uses | <!doctype html5> Microsoft stops fixing bugs. | 5. Back to step one incrementing the HTML version number by one. | | (Instead of <!doctype html5> some other identifier could have been used of | course, such as the suggested <!doctype html> or <!doctype html><html | version=5>, etc.) It would be helpful if you could comment on this. How many levels and years do you think it will take before all implementations reach the ideal goal? -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
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