- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:30:35 +0200
- To: "Mike Wilson" <mikewse@hotmail.com>, "'Www-style'" <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:19:48 +0200, Mike Wilson <mikewse@hotmail.com> wrote: >> The main goal is achieving Web compatibility. When it became >> clear that having no differences between quirks mode and >> standards mode became feasible that became a secondary goal. > > Could you describe your definition of Web compatibility a bit > further? http://www.w3.org/TR/html-design-principles/#support-existing-content >>> Ideally, the spec (or a separate report) should describe the >>> findings of the IE reverse-engineering and the deviations from >>> this model chosen by the spec. Or maybe just add a clarification >>> that the offset* properties in the spec are not intended to >>> mirror the IE model. (But then everyone interested in the IE >>> behaviour will have to reverse-engineer themselves.) >> >> Do you think this section >> http://dev.w3.org/csswg/cssom-view/#background >> is clear enough on that or do you want me to add a sentence saying >> explicitly that it doesn't match current implementations? > > If chosing this path I would like to see comments in each > relevant section, mentioning heritage and compatibility, f ex: Why? -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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