- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:07:57 +1000
- To: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: > Lachlan, do you have any evidence from the past, from when there have > been such changes, of people being against having a switch to retain the > previous rendering? I am not so much against having a switch to select a previous rendering, as I am against being forced against my will into using such a switch without the option of choosing an always-standards mode. Although I do not think adding an unbounded number of such modes in future versions of IE is wise, I'm ok with it on the condition that it does not adversely affect standards compliant authoring techniques and other browser vendors won't be forced to reverse engineer each one of those undocumented modes. Unfortunately, however, there can be no guarantee that browser vendors won't be forced to do so in the future. There is plenty of evidence that authors want to select the most standards compliant mode available. e.g. Every time someone chooses a Strict DOCTYPE instead of a Transitional, they get standards mode instead of almost-standards mode. Many even do so despite using deprecated features. A lot of authors even avoid using deprecated features directly in favour of workarounds just to bypass validation errors, instead of just using a Transitional DOCTYPE (e.g. the target attribute and the various scripts to work around that). -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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