- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:48:10 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Zhenbin Xu <Zhenbin.Xu@microsoft.com>
- Cc: Sunava Dutta <sunavad@windows.microsoft.com>, Web API public <public-webapi@w3.org>, IE8 Core AJAX SWAT Team <ieajax@microsoft.com>, "public-webapps@w3.org" <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Zhenbin Xu wrote: > > In the case there isn't clear technical differences, I don't think we > should pick the right solution based on implementer's cost. Rather We > should base it on customer impact. A bank with 6000 applications built > on top of IE's current APIs simply would not be happy if some > applications cannot run due to changes in some underlying object model. > And this is not IE's problem alone since the bank simply cannot upgrade > or change the browser, if all other browsers result in the same > breakage. For non-Web HTML pages like in this example, solutions like IE's "IE7 mode" are fine. IMHO we should be concentrating on pages on the Web, not on browser-specific pages -- interoperability isn't relevant when the page isn't intended to run on multiple browsers. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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