- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:59:59 -0400
- To: "Dr. Olaf Hoffmann" <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
Dr. Olaf Hoffmann wrote: > Well, this is not really a historical question, because HTML4.01, > XHTML1.0 and XHTML1.1 are the current recommendations for > HTML and HTML5 is still an early draft From an implementor's perspective, HTML5 is already far more implementable than the other specs you mention. > there should be enough > time, maybe several years for implementors to implement more > features from HTML4.01 as they currently have Given the underspecified nature of said features in HTML4.01, this would be a waste of time and actually create more problems than it solves, since the implementations would not be interoperable. > a question at least for several content authors why this is not even > implemented in current state of the art and commonly used > browsers, Honestly? Because given what we know about writing specifications now, HTML 4.01 is a terrible "specification" (if it can even be called such, since it actually doesn't specify very much). It has a lot of kitchen-sink stuff in it, badly thought out and poorly defined. It's a bad investment of development time to implement parts of it that aren't already widely implemented. -Boris
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