[whatwg] Re: several messages

[Greg Kilwein]

>The problems with what I understand of your proposal are:
>
>[snip]
> * Fallback needs author involvement
>    - easiest to simply not support legacy
>    - server typically needs to handle different names for controls,
>      not just different format
>
I'll add one more problem - the author cannot easily test the fallback 
content in the UA of <idate/> if the author doesn't have a legacy UA 
available.  If the author can't easily test it, the odds of the fallback 
content being missing or broken are higher.

Greg