At 08:55 04/03/2001 +0000, Gervase Markham wrote:
> > >And so on into the future, as browsers accumulate more and more
> > >proprietary backwards-compatibility cruft.
> >
> > Does that matter if its tied to quirks mode?
>
>Yes, because it's a strong encouragement for people to continue to write
>pages that are "quirky" and not migrate to standards.
So why have quirks node then? If the advantages of moving to a
non-proprietary model are as advertised then the migration will happen, if
they aren't then Mozilla/NS 6.x isn't going to lever that migration any
faster. Having quirks mode in and of itself won't make any difference.
A great many web sites aren't maintained, they may be replaced and
rewritten but once they are up and have been 'working' no one really has
the resources to go in and tinker them because someone released a minority
browser that won't display those sites.
If you can say that its a horrendously bad idea because it will break the
structure of the DOM and implementing it will push back release dates then
fine. But I don't think the chant of 'standards, standards' is really
going to cut much ice with the majority of users and web developers.
Simon
>Gerv
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