- From: Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl>
- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 14:37:29 +0200
- To: <public-html@w3.org>, <wai-xtech@w3.org>
At 08:40 -0400 UTC, on 2007-09-05, David Poehlman wrote: > What can the html wg do to make browsing on bad browsers better? Nothing. But we can try to define HTML5 such that it's likely that next versions of that browser will be better. Meaning: make HTML5 such that it will actually be implemented correctly by browser UAs. > [...] Is there a way to help authors with this type of transform? Unfortunately authors already apply every trick in the book to cicrumvent known browser bugs. Thus hiding thise bugs from users, thus users not putting pressure on the browser vendor to fix those bugs. (Well, this is my view. Not everybody agrees :)) > Can code prevent uas from doing bad things? Only in the sense that when as an author you know that a certain construction triggers a certain browser bug, you can try to use an alternative construction instead. But in practice that often leads to tricks that in turn introduce other problems. -- Sander Tekelenburg The Web Repair Initiative: <http://webrepair.org/>
Received on Thursday, 6 September 2007 12:46:03 UTC