- From: Christian Smith <csmith@barebones.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:32:35 -0400
- To: Piers Williams <PiersW@zinc.co.uk>
- cc: www-html@w3.org
On Tuesday, June 27, 2000 at 21:19, PiersW@zinc.co.uk (Piers Williams) wrote: > and presumably the answer is that the XML group didn't think about the > backwards compatability implications in XHTML when they designed the XML > spec, XHTML having not been dreamt up yet... Even if XHTML had been dreamt up at that time, it is (for all practical purposes) impossible to make a new language backwards compatible with umpteen previous applications which don't even properly support the existing stuff properly. -- Christian Smith | csmith@barebones.com | http://web.barebones.com He who dies with the most friends... Is still dead!
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