- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 00:08:28 +0200
- To: Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com>
- Cc: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
Also sprach Murray Maloney: > > > I renamed this principle to "Support Existing Content". Here is the new > > text: > > > > > > SupportExistingContent: Browsers implementing the new version of HTML > > > should still be able to handle existing content. Ideally, it should be > > > possible to process web documents and applications via an HTML5 > > > implementation even if they were authored against older implementations > > > and do not specifically request HTML5 processing. > > > >This re-statement is much improved over the prior, BTW. > > The problem with this statement is that it is not a Language Design Principle. > It is a User Agent Design Principle. I would feel more comfortable if you > would label it as a User Agent Design Principle. The principle, if adhered to, has important implications on the design of the language. Therefore, I think it can comfortably be labelled as a langugage design principle. Cheers, -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
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