- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 22:26:53 +1000
- To: Matthew Raymond <mattraymond@earthlink.net>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
Matthew Raymond wrote: > Lachlan Hunt wrote: >> In other words, once IE ships with support for <html bugmode="IEn"> (or >> whatever syntax), *all future standards compliant pages* will be >> *unconditionally required* to use that switch and keep it updated forever! >> >> That cannot be considered, in any way whatsoever, an interim solution. >> It is a *permanent* solution that we do not want. > > I just want to note that the way you are using |bugmode| is not as I > defined it. I'm aware of that and I fully agree with making bugmode an opt-out instead of an opt-in, it was just a useful example attribute. Note that I explicitly referred to Chris Wilson's plan when describing the scenario. See his response [1] insisting that the default be frozen at HTML5 mode, not the latest standards mode available. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Apr/1139.html -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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