- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:32:31 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Henrik Dvergsdal <henrik.dvergsdal@hibo.no>
- Cc: www-archive@w3.org
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Henrik Dvergsdal wrote: > On 18. apr. 2007, at 07.15, Ian Hickson wrote: > > > > And even if you can be reasonably confident - what is the harm in > > > introducing a "5" into the DOCTYPE somewhere? > > > > It encourages people to think of HTML as a versioned specification, > > and encourages and gives the appearance of condoning exactly what > > Microsoft is intending to do. > > > > It increases the size of the boilerplate, when we should be limiting > > it to the bare minimum. > > Do you think that a versioning scheme is compatible with the current > HTML5 proposal? I don't understand the question. What exactly do you mean by "versioning scheme" (there have been dozens of different proposals so far) and what exactly do you mean by "compatible"? (Sent off-list to alleviate the load, but I'll reply on public-html if you can clarify the above and if I haven't already answered the question.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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