- From: Magnus Kristiansen <magnusrk+w3c@pvv.org>
- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:47:30 +0200
- To: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:31:59 +0200, Kornel Lesinski <kornel@geekhood.net> wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:02:12 +0100, Alexander Graf > <a.graf@aetherworld.org> wrote: > >>> The majority of incompetent web developers use tutorials and copy/ >>> paste script, use frameworks and anything premade. >>> >>> 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. >> >> Why even care about incompetent web developers? > > Because, depending on definition of incompetence, it might be more than > a half of all web developers (judging by number of quirks-mode sites, > ill-formed 'XHTML', etc.). > > And incompetent web developers aren't just limited to myspace users, you > can easily find on-line banking websites that are locked into particular > version of IE. The people writing pages in quirks mode are not really relevant to the discussion, because quirks mode is already a "frozen standard" so to say. This doesn't mean there aren't incompetent developers responsible for the other 50% of pages, of course. -- Magnus Kristiansen "Don't worry; the Universe IS out to get you."
Received on Sunday, 15 April 2007 11:47:37 UTC