- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:29:51 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "www-tag@w3.org WG" <www-tag@w3.org>
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Chris Wilson wrote: > > [...] The discussion regarding pre-CR implementations is besides the point, since versioning wouldn't help with that problem. There's no version of HTML5 or Web Storage that ever included the features for which Microsoft committed to using vendor prefixing [1] (despite not actually using it when the product was finally shipped), so versioning wouldn't affect how they work. There's similarly no version of HTML5 or Web Storage that ever included the behaviour IE8 implements [2] with respect to its handling of concurrent script execution, so versioning wouldn't help with that either. In practice, as I've said before, the actual cases where language versioning would be a help at all are few and far between; IMHO they are rare enough that it is a significantly better use of resources to route around these problems on a case-by-case basis. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-comments/2008Jun/0020.html [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Mar/0574.html -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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