- From: Gareth Hay <gazhay@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:28:47 +0000
On 12 Mar 2007, at 17:39, Ian Hickson wrote: > >> Any reasonable implementation would have a base rendering engine and >> then browser differences would extend off of it. A new version would >> mean you change only what differs between versions. > > You still end up with dozens of codepaths to test. Testing one > browser is > a near-infinite amount of work, increasing the complexity is not > workable. > > Quirks vs Strict has already made the life of Web browser vendors > FAR more > complicated than necessary; adding yet more modes is simply not > something > any sane browser vendor would do. I completely agree, Mozilla, WebKit, et Al, are *not* going to implement something that would make their lives a misery. They will simply ignore such a spec, and we will be back in the mess we started. Gareth Hay -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20070312/dc4b88e2/attachment.htm>
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