David, Vadim and that Mosl character have both made it plain they're
firmly in the camp or ignorance and couldn't give a whit about standards
of any kind that don't eminate from them. It's a waste of effort for
someone of your knowledge and stature to even dignify them with a
response.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (L. David Baron) wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> > I understand that both MS and Netscape needed such "ignore as undefined"
> > feature. Probably, they pushed it to standards body, as they, for sure, were
> > controlling around 95% of browser market, especially in 1995-1996...
> >
> > By the way, from consumer's point of view, MS's concept (auto-correcting)
> > sound more reasonable to me.
>
> In the real world, where standards evolve, that's a very bad idea. In
> MSIE4 (and maybe even 5.0 as well), a selector such as "DIV > P" was
> interpreted as "DIV P" since MSIE auto-corrected the extraneous ">" that
> was not part of the CSS1 selector syntax. Then, in CSS2, the working
> group introduced the new ">" combinator. This means style rules written
> in CSS2 using the descendent combinator will do bizarre and unintended
> things in MSIE4 rather than just be ignored.
>
> If you'd prefer that the CSS spec never contain a new feature, then your
> position is fine. However, if you've ever asked for or wanted a new
> feature to be added to CSS, then it's hypocritical.
>
> -David
