- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:56:46 +0100
- To: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>, "Sam Ruby" <rubys@intertwingly.net>
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:51:43 +0100, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: > It's what the spec says, and why I raised the bug. So if Ian changed the note -- as he indicates this actually has nothing to do with HTTP so that would probably be the right thing to do here -- it would be okay with you? >> because double and single quotes can be used all over the Web Platform >> interchangeably. Often though more lenient syntax is more compatible and >> authors do not always test in IE. There are places where IE has >> negligible market share. > > We can't change the HTTP syntax without breaking existing clients, such > as IE but likely many others. Currently the syntax breaks many clients as well. Probably including IE. > Furthermore, if people not testing in IE is a problem, then the right > solution is to converge on the (correct) behavior of IE. That is not how many of our design choices have been made to date. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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