- From: Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 04:46:01 -0500
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: Doug Schepers <doug.schepers@vectoreal.com>, Monika Trebo <mtrebo@stanford.edu>, "Gregory J.Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, wai-xtech@w3.org
On Jun 26, 2007, at 3:02 AM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >> Again, the removal of <img> and <embed> does not in any way >> eliminate a graceful degradation path. > > It removes a graceful degradation path from the conforming > language. It should be possible to write conforming HTML5 documents > that still work reasonably in the current generation of browsers. > We should not force authors to choose between passing an HTML5 > conformance checker and making a document that works in the > browsers of 2007. You do understand that by that logic we could not eliminate th@headers="id" just to take one example from the HTML5 draft. Only after the @scope algorithm is widely deployed would authors be able to drop headers="id". In the same way only after <still> was widely deployed would authors be able to drop <img>. Take care, Rob
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