- From: Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
- Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 13:30:57 -0800
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Ernest Cline <ernestcline@mindspring.com>, "www-html@w3.org" <www-html@w3.org>
On 4/5/03 1:06 PM, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Tantek [ISO-8859-1] ?lik wrote: >> >> This is true, except for the fact that even when people start using XHTML2, >> they will start by writing "backwards compatible" XHTML2. > > Assuming that the HTML WG does keep using a different namespace for XHTML2 > as for XHTML1, and assuming the HTML WG makes it clear that only XML > namespaces are allowed for XHTML2, then I'm not sure what you mean by > backwards compatible XHTML2. People will write XHTML2 that "happens to work" in current/legacy browsers that don't actually have any support for XHTML2, kind of like people are now writing/sending XHTML1 that "happens to work" in current/legacy browsers that don't actually have any support for XHTML1. Tantek
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