The joy of being me. In which Chris Wilson ponders why people are so rude about the versioning issue. I think maybe it has to do with the fact that what he’s proposing is the worst possible thing for the web. But don’t worry. According to him, we’ll get a way to ‘get into “really standards” mode prior to HTML5.’ Great. So we’ll have quirks mode, almost standards mode, standards mode, and “really standards” mode. I’m just waiting for “No really I promise this is actually standards mode”, “cross my heart hope to die stick a needle in my eye standards mode”, and “bet you ten bucks this is actually standards mode”.
I’ve got an idea. Let’s just quit the adding of new rendering modes. Then we’ll have two modes: the “I don’t have a clue and I just copied this HTML codes from my friends page and what is a doctype? mode” and standards mode. And that is one too many.