- From: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
- Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 12:16:40 -0800
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Brian Sexton <discussion-w3c@ididnotoptin.com>, www-style@w3.org
Ian Hickson wrote: >On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Brian Sexton wrote: > > >>I disagree about it being too late to change things now; developers make >>the best of dubious and poor designs and implementations all the time, >>but that is no reason to stop improving both. We are talking about >>aesthetics here, not air traffic control; the good that could come from >>making improvements to CSS for the countless pages that will use it in >>the future easily outweighs the risks of new browsers displaying margins >>a little differently for the considerably smaller number of extant pages >>that would be affected. It is too late to change the past, but it is >>never too late to improve the future. >> >> > >Sadly, when we are talking about billions of existing pages, making >changes that would break existing content is an idea that Web browser >vendors really can't seriously entertain. We have enough trouble with >people saying pages don't work right in our browsers (i.e. not working >like in the browser with most market share) without making it worse. > > > Amen.
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