- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:31:06 -0700
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>, www-dom@w3.org
On Sep 20, 2009, at 1:39 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:07:10 +0200, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> > wrote: >> For reasons I've already stated, I respectfully disagree with your >> interpretation of "deprecated", and I don't intend to apply it in >> the case of DOM3 Events. While I am writing the spec for both >> authors and implementers, the implications of deprecation most >> directly impact implementers. I already use the term "deprecated" >> in what I see as a specific and pragmatic approach throughout the >> spec, and unless I hear from implementers that they disagree with >> that use, I'm not going to change it. > > FWIW, I do find it somewhat confusing. I'm mostly familiar with this > term due to HTML4 and there the end result was that UAs had to > implement the deprecated features. This might not be the meaning > HTML4 gave to it, I wouldn't know, but that is what it effectively > meant. http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/conform.html#deprecated "User agents should continue to support deprecated elements for reasons of backward compatibility." Regards, Maciej
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