- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 21:29:27 +0100 (MET)
- To: Douglas Rand <drand@sgi.com>, Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>, www-style@w3.org
On Dec 3, 4:11pm, Douglas Rand wrote: > Liam Quinn wrote: > > CSS1 didn't work with existing software (IE3) when it became a standard. > > Did you tell your rep to vote for it? > > Both you and Neil are totally missing the point. CSS1, as proposed, > did not make existing software act incorrectly. It made existing software non-conformant, wheras earlier it had been more conformant. > It made available > more information for conforming agents to format the resulting > output more nicely without invalidating anything. I wouldn't say it didn't invalidate anything. In particular, the entire selector syntax changed several times. At one point Arena had implementations of several different syntaxes and would try to choose between them intelligently. Then we saw sense and just implemented the current version of the spec. And, we added clear and unambiguous forward-compatibility parsing rules to deal with future changes. > The current proposal > for CSS2 selectors is not in the same category, hence I feel > differently about it. Douglas, you have made your point and we can all sympathise with your predicament. Is it really too late to make your implementation a CSS1 compliant one? That way, the CSS WG only needs to deal with "CSS2-CSS1" compatibility rather than "CSS2-all known implementations buglists" compatibility which is much harder to get right. -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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