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"W. Borgert" <debacle@debian.org> writes: > On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 08:37:14AM +0900, Michael Smith wrote: > > There is a possibility that it could end up being set to 0 by > > default before the next official release -- to make it backward > > compatible. But I would argue that since this is an issue of > > standards compliance, we should be making the default compliant > > with the standards, with users given the option to make it not > > compliant if for some reason they need to do that. Or to put it > > Is there any reason to keep the old, non-standard variant in > the next release anyway, even with setting a parameter? Well, I don't think it hurts to keep it. But it could hurt not to keep it. Who knows -- maybe there are users out there who have set up some kind of post-processing step or something that relies on the underscore being preserved in the output HTML. I think in general that it is prudent to always provide an option for backward compatibility. Even in a case like this, where backward compatibility means giving users the option of generating output that is not standards compliant. If somebody wants to do that for some reason, who am I to tell them they can't? --Mike -- Michael Smith http://logopoeia.com/ http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/890
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