- From: Kelly <lightsolphoenix@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:21:53 -0400
- To: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
- Cc: ian@hixie.ch, www-style@w3.org, public-appformats@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, August 17, 2006 9:05 pm, T.V Raman wrote: > Ian Hickson writes: > > This allows all these technologies to develop in parallel, with UAs > > supporting the versions that the market demand pushes them to support. > > Which effectively makes interoperability impossible, > since each vendor will go off and support his favorite version > snapshot -- and claim "that's the market demand" --- and in > practice everyone will try to be bug-compatible with the majority > market-holder. That is of course the status-quo --- but if it is > the status-quo -- then one needn't bother with specs anyway ... According to that logic, we might as well quit debating all these specs and simply document Internet Explorer's current behaviour. - -- http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ - Get Firefox! http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ - Reclaim Your Inbox! Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE5RY5vCLXx0V8XHQRAvpgAJ98v3I2AKDj+Hrae9A16s+zOg4NrgCgpv4H zjLHpxRokpDQBqfgLymeUtQ= =peI0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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