- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:01:06 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, mark.birbeck@x-port.net, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: > 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=""). HTML documents using the *style* attribute will not be conforming HTML5 documents (you seem to avoid the style attribute in this discussion :-). >> 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. It's a bad idea because it will only affect those people who actually care about conformance (others won't notice the change), potentially causing those people not to use HTML5 at all, or not to bother with conformance checks anymore. The style attribute (IMHO) is not broken, so it doesn't need to be fixed. Adding the scoped style element is a separate topic (and a good idea). Currently the WG spends an enormous time to discuss why certain things have been changed from HTML4.01, and again and again we hear "this only affects conformance, not browser implementations", as if the conformance definition is unimportant. Best regards, Julian
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