On 21 Jun 2007, at 16:57, Philip Taylor (Webmaster) wrote:
Ian Hickson wrote:
It's not really clear to me that this is an interesting question.
I mean, once HTML6 is out, who cares what HTML5 says?
Everyone who has written an HTML 5 document. I have been
creating web pages ever since HTML 2.0 (many on this list
will have been creating them for far longer), and every
page that I have validated in the past will validate today,
because the specification against which it is written is
enshrined in its DOCTYPE directive.
I agree with Philip here... I have written many websites, and most
(if not all) validate to a specific spec, usually XHTML 1.0.
If the goal-posts move, and there was no declaration of which spec
version I have written to, then without me making any changes, then
all of my websites will become invalid overnight... for example,
because I try to use the @summary attribute on all tables.
Unfortunately, I build websites for a living, and I will not be able
to spend weeks/months re-checking every web page I have ever made, so
that I can claim to always write valid code.
Craig
