- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:54:40 +0100
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- CC: "Michael A.Puls II" <shadow2531@gmail.com>, "Scheppe, Kai-Dietrich" <k.scheppe@telekom.de>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
Henri Sivonen wrote: > ... > The "held back" and "turning off the brain" rhetoric doesn't change the situation that authors would face. > > The fact of the matter is that a browser with a relatively high market share buffers more with autobuffer='off' or autobuffer='false' than when the attribute is absent. Thus, changing the spec to say that autobuffer='off' must not autobuffer, would not give authors the ability to turn buffering off, since specifying the attribute would have the effect of buffering more--not less--as long as the browser release in question has an installed base. > > It's one thing to refine a feature slightly but in the same general direction. It's quite another to mint syntax that has the exact opposite effect from what is desired in deployed software. > ... If Firefox was updated to understand the new syntax in a dot release for 3.6, this doesn't appear to be a big problem... BR, Julian
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