- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:39:42 +0200
- To: "Daniel Glazman" <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>, www-style@w3.org
On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:29:50 +0200, Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com> wrote: > Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> I don't expect authors to do this. I expect them to simply code against >> what the user agent supports they're developing for. (Which is what I >> would do too, admittedly.) > > You made me laugh a lot here. "what the user agent supports" ??? When > you're developing a cross-browser web site ? Ask a web designer, > Anne !!! Cross-browser typically means browser X, Y and Z. Not browser N for any value of N. And yes, it's not always pretty, but having standardized conditionals doesn't make it any better and I fear it would be a huge complexity tax on user agent developing teams, giving them less time to focus on interoperability (which is what we really want). -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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