Re: HTML version issue summary?

Jonas Sicking schrieb:
> 
> 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.

If sites don't use the IE 8 opt-in, IE 8 wouldn't support any of their 
HTML 5 features. Why should any relevant site afford that? Sites will 
mist likely a) stick with HTML 4, b) use the IE 8 opt-in or c) not care 
about IE at all.

--Dao

Received on Wednesday, 25 April 2007 08:21:04 UTC