- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 14:58:05 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd)" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Cc: Sam Kuper <sam.kuper@uclmail.net>, Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) wrote: > > Are we not, once again, beating ourselves over the head with a problem > that would not even exist if HTML 5 were not required to be > backwards-compatible ? Yes. > If browsers (user agents, if you prefer) were to have an HTML 5 mode of > operation and a legacy mode of operation, this and many many analogous > problems would immediately disappear. Indeed. (Though they would be replaced by other problems.) The W3C is trying both approaches, the backwards-compatible one with HTML5, and the dual-mode one with XHTML2. I encourage people interested in pursuing the dual-mode idea to join the XHTML2 working group. The backwards- compatibility direction is a fundamental principle of the HTML5 work. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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