- From: Douglas Rand <drand@sgi.com>
- Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 10:02:23 -0500
- To: Andrew n marshall <amarshal@usc.edu>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Andrew n marshall wrote: >... > Definitely. Douglas Rand's complaints are unfounded, not only for the lack > of evidence that there is a compatibility problem, but also amount of > effort he is requiring out of the standards group (essentially bug testing > all existing browsers to a standard they weren't written to). The CSS-1 > spec was enough warning (although I would hardly say it was clearly > stated). While I'd prefer to move onto more interesting arguments in favor of a human readable syntax, I'd like to address this once again. It is not the case that I ask the group to test *all* existing implementations. It would, however, be informative to know what Netscape 4.0 and IE 4.0 do when presented with the new syntax. That is *not* an insurmountable burden, it would normally be done by the folks at Netscape and Microsoft, and it is extremely relevent to the process. You yourself state that it wasn't so clear in the original spec. I'm inclined to agree, having reread the section. Doug -- Doug Rand drand@sgi.com Silicon Graphics/SSO http://reality.sgi.com/drand Disclaimer: These are my views, SGI's views are in 3D
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