On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 9/1/10 9:13 AM, Brian Campbell wrote: > >> It seems that periodically, web standards bodies decide "this time, if >> we're strict, people will just get the content right or it won't work" (such >> as XHTML with XML parsing rules), and invariably, people manage to screw it >> up anyhow. Sure, when the author tests their page the first time it's fine, >> but a mistaken lack of quoting in a comments field breaks the whole page. >> This causes people to migrate to the browsers or technologies that are less >> strict, and actually show the user what they want to see, rather than just >> breaking due to something out of the user's control. >> > > I hasn't actually happened for MIME types in toplevel documents (modulo the > one known workaround for a common server issue with text/plain). By and > large, browsers don't sniff toplevel browsing contexts, and the one browser > that does has been losing market share. sureley that's not the reason it's losing market share ;-) S.
