Re: Choosing name for XML serialization

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Julian Reschke wrote:
> 
> Ok, so browsers will still be compatible, but the documents will not be 
> conforming anymore.

I don't understand. Old documents wouldn't be any less conforming to their 
contemporary specifications than they are now. New documents would use the 
new features (e.g. CSS in place of align="").


> To me, that seems like an extremely bad idea, potentially driving people 
> away from checking document conformance. On purpose?

I don't really understand what you think the "bad idea" is.

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Received on Monday, 25 June 2007 07:48:51 UTC