- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:07:32 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- Cc: www-archive@w3.org
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Robert Burns wrote: > > I don't think explanations such as that are sufficient. "There were > serious drawbacks, but I can't even remember what they are" Adding a "5" > to the declaration causes many and serious drawbacks? So if there were > to be a a next version HTML 6 it would face those serious and many > drawbacks? I think Dan wants us to stop discussing this in the HTML list, but my later e-mail in that thread (which I sent to www-archive instead) detailed some of the bigger disadvantages: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2007Jun/0024.html See the bottom part of the e-mail. I also included some links to other people's descriptions of the disadvantages. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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