- From: Rob Sayre <rsayre@mozilla.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:26:16 -0500
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
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
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