- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:09:03 +0000
Henri Sivonen wrote: > The right way to go about this is to invent new names for the > incompatible elements/attributes or to abstain from specifying > incompatible stuff in the first place. I agree 100%. > The practical alternative is to refuse to implement specs that > require legacy-incompatible changes to processing models. For browsers which have already implemented XHTML1, that seems to require implementing neither XHTML2-in-the-XHTML1-namespace nor XHTML5 (cf. Anne's reply). > "Only with doctype sniffing" should be read as "No". I suspect the only thing with a hope of dissuading UAs from doctype sniffing is sternly telling them that they SHOULD implement doctype sniffing. ;) -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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