On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Matt Morgan-May wrote: > On 2/26/09 2:46 PM, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > >> 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. > > No. The current spec _obsoletes_ the old feature, and offers an existing > feature as something better. That's pretty far from "exact". The closest HTML5 comes to "deprecating" anything is the "downplayed errors" concept, which summary="" is party to. <caption> is redefined to cover all the features summary="" had, and is better. I don't really see how that is different from what Julian suggested. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'Received on Thursday, 26 February 2009 23:16:58 GMT
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