- From: Dão Gottwald <dao@design-noir.de>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:31:46 +0200
- To: Alfonso Martínez de Lizarrondo <amla70@gmail.com>
- CC: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>, public-html@w3.org
Alfonso Martínez de Lizarrondo schrieb: > > 2007/4/19, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>: >> >> It would really help if you would actually do some research about (or >> at least listen to) what authors actually want, instead of being >> presumptuous. There have been many web developers, including myself, >> saying (both on and off list) that they want an always-standards mode >> option. Every single one that I have discussed this issue with off >> list strongly objects to your plan to perpetuate every bug you ever >> release and require explicit opt ins for nearly every new browser >> version. I will try to get feedback from many more developers >> concerning this issue and make it available to you as evidence for my >> arguments. > > I think that Chris has enough evidence about how much web authors know > what they want when they set their pages to standars mode and blamed > MS for the bug fixes of IE7. > > Let's analyze the situation: > You've built a web page, it's rendered correctly and works properly in > all the current browsers. > IE.next is released with a new standards mode, there are some > possibilities: > > 1.Your page did relied on a bug and it's fixed in the new IE. > 1.a If the opt-in is automatic for every new release then your page > now is broken and you must check and fix it. > 1.b If you must set the opt-in for the new standards mode then your > page will remain fine until you add the opt-in and fix the problems. 1.c We have _one_ more opt-in, namely <!DOCTYPE html>, and MS doesn't officially support it until the standards compliance is reasonable. --Dao
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