- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:45:19 -0700
- To: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
- CC: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org
David Hyatt wrote: > > Versioning is like a vendor-neutral opt-in hook. Browsers can then use > their own opt-in hooks and use the vendor-neutral hook once they are > confident in their compliance with the spec. Theoretically IE might do > something like this with my proposal: > > IE 8 ships with partial HTML5 support, uses custom opt-in #1 > IE8.1 ships with more complete HTML5 support, uses custom opt-in #2 > IE9 is the point where MSFT decides they've nailed it, now they use the > HTML5 version as opt-in #3 > IE9.1 starts adding more features for future HTML versions or maybe has > to tweak existing HTML5 a tiny bit to deal with some quirks, uses custom > opt-in #4 I don't think this will work. What would probably happen is that before IE9 (in the example above) ships there will be tons of HTML5 documents that doesn't use any IE opt-in switches authored and put up on the web. Microsoft will unlikely be willing to all of a sudden switch rendering mode on all those documents and would instead require opt-in #3 to be some custom switch. Of course, it would be great to hear microsofts view on this. / Jonas
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