Gervase Markham wrote:
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> You can write a standards-compliant code path that works in Netscape 6 and
> IE 5. There's all sorts of migration guides (Eric Krock's, for one.)
The simple addition of document.all support in quirk-mode would unbreak lots
of pages. Without special-casing developers can write for IE4+IE5 using
document.all *or* IE5+Gecko using "standards". Of the two, which do you
think a ton of current web pages use? What do you think the likelyhood that
these pages will be re-written to work in Gecko when they appear to work on
80% of the browsers already? How fast do you think IE4 is going to
disappear?
"Not speaking on behalf of my employer, who certainly disagrees with me on
this point in particular."
-Dan Veditz
