- From: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:46:13 -0800
- To: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: <www-style@w3.org>
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch> > > Unfortuntely that wouldn't be backwards compatible, and so isn't really an > option. > Ian, what does this "backward compatibility" mean? 1) HTML5 is backward compatible with HTML4 so any HTML5 aware UA can read HTML4 files without any additional setup. That implies HTML4 is a subset of HTML5. -or - 2) Any HTML4 aware UA can render HTML5. That is possible only if HTML5 is exactly HTML4 or its subset (but not superset). What of these is true? Andrew Fedoniouk. http://terrainformatica.com
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