- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:57:26 -0800
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: Daniel Schattenkirchner <schattenkirchner.daniel@gmx.de>, public-html@w3.org
On Nov 9, 2008, at 5:20 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > On Nov 8, 2008, at 09:00, Daniel Schattenkirchner wrote: > >> So my question is, are we really still in need of Almost Standards >> Mode? > > Yes, we are. Most standards-aware new commercial Web design seems to > happen in the Almost Standards Mode--not in the Full Standards Mode > these days. > > If you consider the Quirks Mode, Almost Standards Mode and Standards > Mode in Gecko/Opera/WebKit, the one whose elimination would cause > the least disruption would be the Standards Mode (if made behave as > Almost Standards). However, at this stage, there's reluctance to > changing the modes. (Simon Pieters suggested making the Standards > Mode behave like the Almost Standards Mode in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008May/0266.html > but the reception wasn't enthusiastic.) If we were to make Standards Mode and Almost Standards Mode behave the same, I would prefer it have the behavior of Almost Standards Mode (with CSS 2.1 updated to codify this). But it's quite possibly too late for this and in any case it would need testing to see what breaks. - Maciej
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