- From: Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl>
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:07:50 +0200
- To: public-html@w3.org
At 20:16 -0700 UTC, on 2007-04-24, David Hyatt wrote: > On Apr 24, 2007, at 7:43 PM, Matthew Raymond wrote: [IE.next] > And if they ship with their own form > of opt-in and don't honor your HTML5 doctype, so what? Older > browsers wouldn't honor it either, so you'd obviously have to be > prepared to provide a useful rendering anyway. I don't think that comparison flies. By definition an older browser is stable, while future browsers are a moving target. Catering for a specific older browser is something that 'needs' to be done once only, but catering for moving targets is a continuous process (== continuous cost). -- Sander Tekelenburg The Web Repair Initiative: <http://webrepair.org/>
Received on Wednesday, 25 April 2007 17:12:11 UTC