"Simon P. Lucy" wrote:
>
> 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.
Quirks mode is for the millions and millions and millions and millions
of web pages already out there will be made imediately unusable if there
is not one. It will take time and years and years and years to switch
over to the new code. It not going work like "okay all web pages all
over the world will use html 4 effective 11:59:59 pm June 30, 20001". It
just doesn't work that way. You'll be luck to all pages changed to new
standards in 10 years. In the US Maybe. but we are talking world wide.
>
> 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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> If I'd known I would spend so much time sorting and rearranging boxes
> I'd have paid more attention at kindergarten
>
> S.P. Lucy
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