RE: What are we trying to solve with document.designMode?

On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, benjamin.poulain@nokia.com wrote:
> > > 
> > > With my current understanding of the problem, I think this should be 
> > > removed from the specification or explicitly deprecated. The 
> > > differences between released browser make the attribute unreliable 
> > > for web authors. I could not find in the archives why designMode was 
> > > added to the spec, I would be interested to the rationale behind 
> > > this feature.
> > 
> > designMode is needed for Web compat. If the spec doesn't match 
> > browsers, please file spec bugs.
>
> In the same manner, window.find() is largely deployed but did not make 
> it to the spec. It seems a bit arbitrary to have designMode.

They are being handled in the same way, as far as I can tell. 
window.find() is still an open issue.

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