Re: ISSUE-4: Versioning, namespace URIs and MIME types

On 2/17/09 6:04 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Rob Sayre wrote:
>    
>> On 2/17/09 5:47 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
>>      
>>> Keeping legacy compatibility is pretty much the number one requirement and
>>> design principle underpinning the HTML5 work. I don't think it's tradable.
>>>        
>> Several parts of HTML5 are incompatible with the current behavior of IE
>> and Firefox. It seems to me that legacy compatibility has been traded,
>> sometimes.
>>      
>
> If there are things in HTML5 that are incompatible with legacy content,
> please tell me, because that's a bug and should be fixed. As far as I'm
> aware, the only cases where HTML5 isn't compatible with legacy browsers is
> when the legacy content doesn't rely on the specific feature in question,
> or when there is content that relies on contradictory behavior, or when
> there is a security bug in the legacy behavior

Looks like we agree.

- Rob

Received on Tuesday, 17 February 2009 23:26:59 UTC