[whatwg] Versioning (was: Re: Using the HTML5 DOCTYPE as a new quirksmode switch) from Geoffrey Sneddon on 2007-03-14 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from March 2007)

From: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:13:14 +0000
Message-ID: <3E4C33AA-0CE9-44FE-9F81-8F2CE582ED5A@googlemail.com>

On 14 Mar 2007, at 15:16, liorean wrote:

> This is a switch out of backwards-compatibility-hell for a single
> specific browser they are asking for, not something any other browser
> vendor should have to worry about.

Other browsers introduced quirks mode to match buggy behaviour of  
others ? what's to say that won't happen here, so that other browsers  
have an IE/Win DOM mode, which would therefore require a switch?

- Geoffrey Sneddon

Received on Wednesday, 14 March 2007 10:13:14 UTC