RE: [HDP] Other comments from RI

Thanks Olivier for finding ways to suggest an approach that I was struggling
to put into words.

Personally, my inclination when using a date cut-off would be to say just
versions in force up to 5 years ago.  Remember that the Web itself has only
been around for a little over 10 years, and I think it is reasonable to
expect people to upgrade their technology within a 5 year period.  

RI

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olivier GENDRIN [mailto:olivier.gendrin@gmail.com] 
> Sent: 24 August 2007 13:05
> To: Richard Ishida
> Cc: public-html
> Subject: Re: [HDP] Other comments from RI
> 
> On 8/23/07, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org> wrote:
> > > 3. Degrade Gracefully
> > In fact, in the statement "new features should work 
> reasonably well in older user agents that do not support the 
> functionality" what constitutes an 'older browser'?
> 
> Perhaps we can define an older browser as a browser that is older than
> 5 years and jounger than 10. And ignore browser older than 10 years.
> Or rely on versions (older browser : version n-2, with n 
> being the most young stable version).
> 
> --
> Olivier G.
> http://www.lespacedunmatin.info/blog/
>

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