- From: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:02:07 -0800
Ok, so quick question that will clear things up significantly for me: Is HTML5 intended to be a description of the Way Things Are or a description of the Way Things Ought To Be? If the former, then folks who want to change the status quo have no other option than to pursue the development of a separate specification and hope that folks will pick it up. Is that an accurate statement? - James Ian Hickson wrote: > [snip] > It's widespread _today_, such that UAs today can't change their behaviour. > Thus we can't change the spec today. > > If you reduced the volume of such usage, then it would be worth > revisiting, but unless that happens, we're merely talking hypotheticals. > > Personally I wouldn't be optimistic about the ability to change the legacy > data; historically it has not been possible. I don't really know of any > successful attempt, to the point where browsers historically have even > tried using different processing modes -- the whole quirks mode thing -- > to get around legacy content incompatible with the specifications. > > >> Are you able to analyze what proportion of those pages are hosted by the >> top, say, 10 hosters? > > Not from my current data set, no. >
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