- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 10:11:33 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 08:53:21AM +0200, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > However, breaking backwards compatibility is only possible when we > introduce a new format as explained on this list before (and that's not > the goal of the HTML WG). Hence, we have to make user agent requirements > that require support for the features we rather see people not using. > (Those features can still be non-conforming, obviously.) No, we don't. HTML 5/4.02/4.1 does not need to include legacy and proprietary features, a user agent can support both "new HTML" and "Legacy/Proprietary code" without the latter being specified in the former. For user agents that want to implement legacy and proprietry features, a seperate specification can be written. This may or may not require switching of parse modes for the markup based on some versioning information in HTML > 4.01. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk
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