That's very true. Those that our party of the community are those that
are aware and follow standards. And, I do disagree with compatibility
indefinitely, such as having IE5's, or even IE6's rendering engine
within IE8, because that does cause bloat. But, I can understand having
IE7s, because not every developer is going to even feasibly be able to
update all of their updates in between the beta of IE8 and the actual
release, and even then it might completely update their site for when
IE8 comes out. Likewise, when IE9 comes out, if it's rendering
capabilities change for HTML compared to IE8, I would expect IE9 to
contain IE8's rendering engine, but likely drop IE7 (depending how
quickly they pushed it out). You have to have some
backwards-compatibility, but you have to eventually drop some of it if
you ever want to progress.
Patrick Lauke wrote:
Tate Johnson
I agree with your latter point. However, I fear that it
protects lazy
developers who refuse to adopt standards based practices. That said,
the more and more you look at the community on the whole; it seems
less ignorant today than at the start of the decade.
The problem is that those lazy or ignorant developers are *not* actually
part of the community...they may not even realise that there *is* a community.
P
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