- From: Matthew Raymond <mattraymond@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:07:17 -0400
- To: Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>
- CC: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Chris Wilson wrote: > Sander Tekelenburg wrote: >> As I understand it, this is the situation: >> - Microsoft insists that authors expicitly opt-in to 'IE really standards >> mode'. > > Yes. Standards-compliant documents should never have to opt-in to being rendered as standards-compliant documents. To force authors to do so is a subversion of the standards process. >> - Microsoft wants the switch for that to be something that others do not want >> (like doctype versioning for instance.) >> - If the switch doesn't get specced, Microsoft will 'spec' its own > > No. We will have our own proprietary, non-invalidating opt-in switch to > "really standards as of IEn" mode. This is even worse, because the switch, by being proprietary, would be non-conformant, so a standards-conformant document would have to be turned into a non-conformant document just to be rendered as a standards-conformant document. If this happens, we should just rename it Bizarro-HTML.
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