- From: Bruce Lawson <brucel@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:39:27 +0100
- To: "Henri Sivonen" <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: "Lars Gunther" <gunther@keryx.se>, public-html@w3.org
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:33:11 +0100, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote: > On Sep 17, 2009, at 14:25, Bruce Lawson wrote: > >> The current crop of browsers all have parsing problems with the initial >> proposal of re-using legend, which means that details and figure are >> unworkable in all current browsers. Therefore, no-one will use the new >> element. For me, details is a highly useful beast. > > Surely authors shouldn't use <details> before UAs ship support for it. > <figure>, on the other hand, makes sense without native UA support, > since it is useful as a mere styling hook. Sure we would. Test support for it, then fake it with JS if it's not supported natively. Like Dean Edwards' HTML5-hole-plugging script fakes all the webforms input types etc. bruce -- Hang loose and stay groovy, Bruce Lawson Web Evangelist www.opera.com (work) www.brucelawson.co.uk (personal) www.twitter.com/brucel
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