- From: Ben Millard <cerbera@projectcerbera.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:28:04 -0000
- To: "Geoffrey Sneddon" <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- Cc: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, "Chris Wilson" <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>, "HTMLWG" <public-html@w3.org>
Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: > Remember Chris said in the F2F that it was too late to remove it now. > That should be somewhere in the minutes. Chris Wilson wrote: [[[ It's quite likely we WILL ship IE8 with <q> and </q> generating punctuation, since that's what HTML4.01 said we should do, and it's awfully late in the cycle to pull out now. If there's a solid reason for it, we might be able to, but I would think that building an implementation that's (mostly, modulo the choice of default quote characters in English and the international language support) interoperable across the 4 most popular engines would be the best thing to do (= ship auto-generating quotes). ]]] <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Oct/0232.html> This means it won't be fully interoperable with any the 4 most popular engines. It won't be at all interoperable with previous versions of IE, which are still the most common means of browsing the web. There'll be a Release Candidate before the final release: [[[ We will be very selective about what changes we make between the next update and final release. We will act on the most critical issues. ]]] <http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/11/19/ie8-what-s-after-beta-2.aspx> I wouldn't call this a "critical issue" but it least it has a clear-cut solution (imho). -- Ben Millard <http://projectcerbera.com/web/study/>
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