- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 17:25:37 +0200
- To: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
* Karl Dubost wrote: >Le 30 avr. 2007 ā 22:02, Lachlan Hunt a écrit : >>> Second, what you really mean is working the same way as other >>> browsers. >> >> Yes, that's what interoperability means. > >Just to fix a common error in the vocabulary. >This is *not* what interoperability means. > >Interoperability means the capability of two independent >implementations to work exactly the same. >What is described: "working the same way as other browsers" is >compatibility. It is completely different. You might have meant to place a colon instead of a full stop somewhere here. I do not see, for example, what the difference between "work ex- actly the same" and "working the same" really is. At a high level, both interoperability and compatibility describe whether things fit together. They are typically meant to answer questions such as: * Can two systems cooperate * Can two systems coexist in harmony * Can two systems fuse together * Can one system be replaced by the other * Can one system support the other People are typically not entirely agreed which and to which degree the terms measure these. They are important and meaningful criteria however, I would not say that about "work exactly the same" without considerable qualification. In any case your definition does not account for "inter". -- Björn Höhrmann ˇ mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de ˇ http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 ˇ Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 ˇ http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim ˇ PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 ˇ http://www.websitedev.de/
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