- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:04:04 +1000
- To: Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>
- CC: HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>
Ben Boyle wrote: > I intend to do some testing with HTML5 backwards compatibility soon > (so I guess I'll be flagging documents with "<!DOCTYPE HTML>") Changing from HTML4/XHTML1 Strict DOCTYPEs (or any other DOCTYPE that triggers standards mode) to the HTML5 DOCTYPE will not affect document parsing and rendering at all in current browsers. > I'd encourage all authors to do this ... start using HTML5 today where > you can! That'll show us where the issues (for authors) are. Actually, I'd encourage most authors to continue using HTML4 DOCTYPEs at this stage until more browsers, particularly IE, actually have reasonable support for HTML5. The reason is because Microsoft intend to introduce bug mode switching based on the DOCTYPE, and the more sites that use the HTML5 DOCTYPE unfortunately increases the chance of IE requiring an additional standards-mode opt-in (even with the HTML5 DOCTYPE) in the future, which would be bad for everyone. So the sad reality is that we need to give MS as much time as possible to fix their major bugs before everyone starts using HTML5. See the discussions about versioning and bug mode switches from a few months ago. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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