- From: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 13:11:17 -0700
- To: Gareth Hay <gazhay@gmail.com>
- Cc: W3C List <public-html@w3.org>, "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
On May 1, 2007, at 7:17 AM, Gareth Hay wrote:
>>
>> To jeopardise this opportunity by insisting that the
>> browser use the same parsing/rendering algorithms for legacy
>> ("tag soup") documents as for new ("well formed") documents
>> is insane, IMHO.
>>
>> Philip Taylor
>>
>
> I think this is 100% spot on, and far more nicely said than my
> previous attempts.
>
> I tried to raise the point that UA's can use what they have now to
> render backward content, while striving for something better with
> HTML5, I wholeheartedly agree with Philip's comments.
>
We (Apple) will not implement a new HTML language that is not
backwards-compatible with HTML4 and existing real-world content.
Breaking backwards compatibility in new versions of the language is a
non-starter for us.
dave
(hyatt@apple.com)
Received on Tuesday, 1 May 2007 20:12:13 UTC