- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:09:20 +0000
- To: www-svg@w3.org
- CC: public-html@w3.org
Justin James wrote: > > The HTML spec is NOT a "web browser" spec. Indeed, the reason why the That was the historical, W3C, position, but it is not that of HTML5, or vendor efforts in other areas, such as CSS. It's why there is a big tension between people who believe they are following the traditional spirit of HTML and the vendors. > Web has evolved as quickly as it has, is precisely because browsers > are free to innovate and invent above and beyond how they handle HTML > (or course, many of us wish they would stop "innovating" and > "inventing" when it comes to how they handle HTML, but that's another > story...). The prime design guideline for modern CSS and HTML5 is that authors should be able to rely on pages looking and behaving the same on all browser, without having carefully designed them to achieve that, but simply having tested the presentation and behaviour on one browser. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
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