- From: Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl>
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:07:43 +0200
- To: public-html@w3.org
At 17:16 -0700 UTC, on 2007-04-24, David Hyatt wrote: [...] > (4) I think IE's opt-in should be independent of DOCTYPE until such > time as they are confident that they have HTML5.0 fully implemented > and supported. Then one could imagine the doctype being used as the > opt-in. Do you mean for the spec to specifically state this? If not, how are auhors to know what <!DOCTYPE x> is for; why they should or should not include it? To clarify: I imagine that part of why authors today claim HTML 4 Strict yet still expect quirks mode, is that the HTML spec doesn't attribute magic like standards/quirks modes to the Strict/Transitional doctypes. So if this WG intends to continue on the quirks/standards modes path, the spec should define those things. If it doesn't, that'd be like saying to authors "How UAs interpret your web pages remains voodoo". > (5) I do not think the spec should attempt to say how browsers opt in > to HTML5. Then could you please answer what I asked Chris Wilson in <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Apr/1239.html> and <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Apr/1284.html>? > Microsoft should be allowed to design their own mechanism > for this. I'm not sure I understand. Do you mean the spec should state "Microsoft is allowed to define its own opt-in switch"? -- Sander Tekelenburg The Web Repair Initiative: <http://webrepair.org/>
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