- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:21:06 +0200
- To: "Elliott Sprehn" <esprehn@gmail.com>, "Maciej Stachowiak" <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
> On Oct 2, 2012, at 4:58 PM, Elliott Sprehn <esprehn@gmail.com> wrote: > >> What of the fact that this breaks existing pages with <input >> id="Path"> that access it as just Path? Historically this has been a >> non-starter for new APIs. On Wed, 03 Oct 2012 05:12:46 +0200, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote: > Can we get data on prevalence of such pages? Data set: http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2012/04/html5-accessibility-chops-data-for-the-masses/ $ grep -aPc "\s(?i:(id|name))\s*=\s*(\"|')?Path((\"|')|(\s|>|/))" stevef-all 0 $ grep -aPc "\s(?i:(id|name))\s*=\s*(\"|')?Audio((\"|')|(\s|>|/))" stevef-all 2 $ grep -aPc "\s(?i:(id|name))\s*=\s*(\"|')?URL((\"|')|(\s|>|/))" stevef-all 18 Data set: http://dotnetdotcom.org/ $ grep -aPc "\s(?i:(id|name))\s*=\s*(\"|')?Path((\"|')|(\s|>|/))" web200904 85 $ grep -aPc "\s(?i:(id|name))\s*=\s*(\"|')?Audio((\"|')|(\s|>|/))" web200904 27 $ grep -aPc "\s(?i:(id|name))\s*=\s*(\"|')?URL((\"|')|(\s|>|/))" web200904 1357 (I don't have data on how many of these also do something like <form onsubmit="return validate(URL)"> etc.) -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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