- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:26:30 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Orion Adrian <orion.adrian@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Orion Adrian wrote: > > One small problem. No one implemented CSS 2.0. No one really even > implemented all of 1.0. My guess given those two data points: no one > will fully implement 2.1. What parts of CSS1 are not implemented by Mozilla, Opera, and Safari? The intent is certainly two have multiple complete implementations of CSS2.1 in due course. > Maybe it's because I'm a usability guy, but I think try-out/revise would > be a better model for the development of these languages. Now you're > going to say that that's what you do, but I'm not talking about the spec > implementors. I'm talking about the language consumers. You have to look > to people who aren't familiar with the spec and the spec's inner > workings to try the thing out. Observe where they have trouble and then > fix it. As you say, I'm going to say that we do. There's a limit to how many changes can be made, though, without breaking existing sites (those that were written based on the previous version). And we cannot do that. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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