Peter De Berdt wrote in post #956885: > On 25 Oct 2010, at 15:34, Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote: > >>> I don't think it's such as bad thing to not perfectly support older >>> browsers. >> >> Not perfectly, perhaps, but as well as possible. I am not sure that >> providing HTML 5 markup meets that goal. However, I haven't yet done >> much research about older browsers' support of HTML 5. > > I think the poster meant something like: I use some of the newer CSS > features and maybe some HTML5 attributes. Older browsers will simply > ignore those and move on.
...or not. Yes, of course it's fine to use new attributes that older browsers will ignore. However, HTML 5 differs from HTML 4 not just in its repertoire of attributes and elements, but also *in its basic syntax* -- HTML 5 is no longer a subset of SGML as HTML ≤4 is. That's the part that (potentially) breaks graceful degradation. > Trying to get the same result across all > browsers and versions is not necessary anyway. If you use IE6, you > accept that you might miss out on some of the new goodies. As long as > the page renders and is usable, that's fine imo. Right. But when the syntax -- not just the semantics -- changes, then I start worrying. Time for me to do more research. > > > Best regards > > Peter De Berdt Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
