- From: Gareth Hay <gazhay@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:49:53 +0100
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On 30 Apr 2007, at 16:31, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > >> No reluctance to acknowledge that browsers exist. That would be an >> absurd >> and extreme position. However, I would prefer to maintain a layer >> of abstraction >> between the language and the human being. I think that it is >> possible to describe >> what you mean with respect to preserving the existing meaning of >> extant HTML >> without resorting to descriptions that are based on browser >> behaviour and performance. > > The problem is, the expected presentation of extant HTML is de > facto defined by existing browsers. So making such an abstraction > abstracts away too much. We can't just look at a document in > isolation and guess what the author intended without checking how > it renders and behaves in browsers (and other user agents). > Isn't the whole idea of the, so-called HTML5, that the page will render according to the specification in all browsers?
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