- From: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:49:43 -0400
- To: public-html@w3.org
Robert Burns wrote (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Sep/0398.html) > Asking authors who may have no need to use > scripting to use scripting to implement HTML5 > will be a recipe for disaster. Generally, yes. But it could work if the workarounds are provided by w3c.org. If all they have to do is add <script src="http://www.w3c.org/html/html5woraround.js"> to the header, that might be OK. > I think its less of a problem to ask authors who > are already scripting to fork their scripts for > different UAs to make use of HTML5. The end result of that path is that the non-MSIE scripts aren't actually maintained, so that Safari and Opera (and sometimes even Firefox) are worse off than before; they can't even do client-side fixups. -jJ
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