- From: Rob Mientjes <robmientjes@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 11:06:05 +0200
- To: "dagobah1@optonline.net" <dagobah1@optonline.net>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On 5/27/05, dagobah1@optonline.net <dagobah1@optonline.net> wrote: > > With all the news tags you plan on adding (<l>, <seperator>, etc.) how > do you expect current browsers to render the new tags? > Normally, tags have to be coded INTO the browser by the browser creator > (ex. microsoft, mozilla, opera, etc.). That is indeed the expectation one should have were one to release a specification, but... > How are current browsers suppost to read XHTML 2.0 correctly? This > looks like something only future browsers could handle, which would > cause a problem. ... one can't progress if one keeps looking back. Sometimes it's just not the thing to be backwards compatible, for progression dies painfully. Somewhere I do think that your software should always be the latest version, and though that's unrealistic, it _is_ how everyone builds sites and specifications. -- Cheers, Rob. http://zooibaai.nl/ | http://digital-proof.org/ http://design.zooibaai.nl/ | More soon...
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