Re: ISSUE-4: Versioning, namespace URIs and MIME types from Rob Sayre on 2009-02-17 (public-html@w3.org from February 2009)

From: Rob Sayre <rsayre@mozilla.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:53:05 -0500
To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
CC: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <499B3FD1.8080504@mozilla.com>

On 2/17/09 5:47 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
> Keeping legacy compatibility is pretty much the number one requirement and
> design principle underpinning the HTML5 work. I don't think it's tradable.
>    

Several parts of HTML5 are incompatible with the current behavior of IE 
and Firefox. It seems to me that legacy compatibility has been traded, 
sometimes.

- Rob

Received on Tuesday, 17 February 2009 22:53:50 UTC