- From: Bruce Boughton <bruce@bruceboughton.me.uk>
- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:12:19 +0100
- To: Mihai Sucan <mihai.sucan@gmail.com>
- CC: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, public-html@w3.org
Mihai Sucan wrote: > Given such switch, frameworks will require it and will only tell you > "please copy/paste the following line at the beginning of the HTML > page". They'll spare the details, if you know what I mean. > > It is inevitable, given the switch, we will end up with tons of > documents relying on buggy behaviour in IE.next. IE n+1 will break > those pages if it doesn't add yet another switch. Which is no worse than what we have now. It does give MS a get-out clause though if someone complains that IE8 broke their site. I guess the impact of this is whether the mode switch is just for HTML parsing or for DOM and CSS too. Bruce
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