- From: Philip Taylor (Webmaster) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 18:29:48 +0100
- To: public-html@w3.org
Jeff Cutsinger wrote: >> And what does it really mean ? That a document >> written in HTML5 will display "correctly" in >> browsers that are HTML5-unaware ? > > Yes. If the browsers are HTML5-unaware, then their behaviour in the presence of (new) HTML5 elements is unpredictable to say the least. The probability that such a docment will display "correctly" (no matter how you choose to define "correctly") is vanishingly small. > You are incorrect. The WHATWG specs as defined are (loosely speaking) a > superset of HTML 4 (in that they add useful features) Useful in the opinion of some : the usefulness of several of these "features" is debatable to say the least. > Can we please move on? If by "move on", you mean "will [I] blindly accept things with which I disagree ?", then I am afraid the answer must be "no". The purpose of this forum is to encourage debate, and debate is pointless if there is only one point of view. > Really, if you're so stuck on this, the WHATWG > standard allows you to use XML! Or use XHTML 1.0 or 1.1 with the > application/xhtml+xml mimetype. Or try out XHTML 2.0. No thank you, I want to use HTML5, where HTML5 is derived from HTML 4.01 Strict rather than from something that looks more like HTML 3.2 as modified by a committee. Philip Taylor
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