On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Wim Feijen <wimfei...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1. All major browsers now support html5 and by the time django 1.4 > will be released we will be right on time though a bit late.
Statements like "All modern browsers support it" misses the point. It isn't the *modern* browsers that are the issue -- it's the *legacy* browsers. This is exactly the same reason why we can't drop support for old versions of Python -- "modern" operating systems all provide Python 2.6 or better, but older operating systems don't. Like it or not, IE6 still exists, and still has a non-trivial market share [1]. I have green field projects that I'm working on right now for which IE6 compatibility is an issue. Do I like it? Not one little bit. But I have to follow the golden rule -- whoever has the gold, makes the rules, and it's an unfortunate fact of life that enterprise customers have money, and they also have massive IT installations that can't/won't move off IE6. I'm all on board with the broad sentiment of this proposal -- that we should be providing a way for people to use HTML5 when they can, and probably even moving to HTML5 as the default rendering style. However, we simply *can't* ignore old browsers in this transition. As with Gabriel; call me a tentative +0; this will rapidly drop to -1 if means supporting IE6 is difficult or impossible as a result of the change. Of course, this depends a great deal on the details of exactly what is to be done, and where. Luke's proposal says we should "use HTML5 features at least as an option in places like the admin", but the provided patch is a unilateral switch to HTML5 doctypes in the admin. Optional support is a completely different beast from only providing HTML5 rendering. And, to provide some context to Luke's point (6) -- part of my driving motivation in the template rendering proposal was to provide a way for end-developers to determine which doctype they want to use, and how they interpret that doctype, rather than Django needing to mandate anything. [1] http://www.ie6countdown.com/ Yours, Russ Magee %-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
