On 12 Mar 2007, at 17:39, Ian Hickson wrote:
Any reasonable implementation would have a base rendering engine and
then browser differences would extend off of it. A new version would
mean you change only what differs between versions.
You still end up with dozens of codepaths to test. Testing one
browser is
a near-infinite amount of work, increasing the complexity is not
workable.
Quirks vs Strict has already made the life of Web browser vendors
FAR more
complicated than necessary; adding yet more modes is simply not
something
any sane browser vendor would do.
I completely agree, Mozilla, WebKit, et Al, are *not* going to
implement something that would make their lives a misery.
They will simply ignore such a spec, and we will be back in the mess
we started.
Gareth Hay
