- From: Scott Turner <scotty1024@mac.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:36:20 -0700
- To: Eric Daspet <eric.daspet@survol.fr>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Apr 25, 2007, at 6:19 AM, Eric Daspet wrote: > > This assume that authors that rely on a specific version know that > they > are doing so. In my opinion, this is not the case. Most authors may > rely > on a bug and do not know that it is a bug. I agree with you but would like to point out that when content users start informing the content's author that it is not rendering correctly with >IE 7 the author could use Google to find the lock down to fix their content quickly with a copy and paste. The question I have about this lock down proposal is how long would a browser need to implement them? How extra bloated would a browser get? What if a "bug" is because of an internal architecture the browser authors wish to discard? Personally I'd like to see browser producers implement authoring modes that could be employed by page authors to check their work against a browser. If a lock down were protecting their content by continuing to implement a bug then the authoring mode would advise them of this and suggest how much longer it might continue to work: fix before IE 9.0 (or else!) Scott Turner
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