Anne van Kesteren [mailto:annevk@opera.com] wrote: >In IE8 you can do > element.ariaDisabled = true >This is not possible in any other browser. In other browsers you are >required to do > element.setAttribute("aria-disabled", "true") Yup, that's clear now. (To be more clear - the latter works in IE as well.) >So if people use the former it will only work in IE8. Also, the idea was >that ARIA scripts would work for older browsers as well as AT could simply >read the DOM. If you introduce DOM attributes (such as ariaDisabled) this >whould no longer be true. That sounds like "we should never introduce DOM attributes again, and everyone should just always use getAttribute()?" >> Yeah, I see that, and I've been thinking about that very issue. Not >> clear to me if Opera is happy if we simply make it so a standards-mode >> DOCTYPE is necessary, as some of the invective is still demanding >> removal of IE7 compatibility altogether. > >We're not happy with documentMode, but making X-UA-Compatible work just >for standards mode would be an improvement. Just like doing IE8 mode by >default is an improvement. That sounds like a no. -ChrisReceived on Wednesday, 12 March 2008 22:19:00 UTC
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