- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:27:23 +0100
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- CC: public-html <public-html@w3.org>
Julian Reschke wrote: > > Lachlan Hunt wrote: >> ... >> e.g. When describing the script element, I'll explain the use of >> ... HTML comments intended to hide scripts from older browsers, >> >> http://lachy.id.au/log/2005/05/script-comments >> ... > > Does it really make sense to still promote that? Back then (2,5 years > ago) you wrote: > > "It should be noted that there are no user agents in use today that > don’t support the script element (regardless of whether they support the > actual script or not), so using this technique on the web today seems > rather superfluous. Yet it’s interesting to note that so many sites > still make use of this old technique that was designed for accessibility > reasons, despite the fact that so many of these sites choke in many > other ways in browsers with scripts disabled or unsupported." > > ...so it seems to me that it's really only relevant as historic > information, and wouldn't belong into HTML5 related material... Exactly. I meant that I would explain it as something that should not be done, since I consider it bad practice these days. However, you're probably right. Maybe it's better to just talk about what authors should do rather than what they shouldn't do in this case. I can always include that article as a reference for further reading. -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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