- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:41:37 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Malcolm Rowe wrote: > > In HTML4, the W3C HTML WG provide the following: > > "As of the 24 December version of HTML 4.01, the HTML Working Group > commits to the following policy: > > * Any changes to future HTML 4 DTDs will not invalidate documents that > conform to the DTDs of the present specification. The HTML Working Group > reserves the right to correct known bugs. > * Software conforming to the DTDs of the present specification may ignore > features of future HTML 4 DTDs that it does not recognize." > -- http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#version-info > > Now, while the WHATWG isn't the W3C HTML WG, and while the W3C may not be > the eventual destination for a WF2 spec, I would suggest that this policy is > one that also makes sense for WF2, as a 'successor' to HTML4. A document that conforms to HTML4 Strict will always conform to any relevant spec created by WHATWG. That would be the whole "backwards compatible" thing... -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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