Re: summary="" in HTML5 ISSUE-32

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Julian Reschke wrote:
> David Poehlman wrote:
> > hmm, I like #2 but I would ad that it is my contention that we don't break
> > backwards compatibility.
> > ...
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> Come up with something better, and *deprecate* the old feature in order to
> make the transition.

That's in fact exactly what HTML5 does today.

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