- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 07:02:01 +1000
- To: "Patrick H. Lauke" <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: > Lachlan Hunt wrote: >> ... For instance, support for IE's <t:video> or WebTV's >> <audioscope> elements probably won't be required because there's >> very little evidence (if any) to show that they're needed. > > The difference here being that <t:video> and <audioscope> were not > part of the original HTML 4.1 spec, so it's not a case of removing > them from the spec in the first place (whereas that's the case with > id/headers). Fair enough, here's some examples that are in HTML4 Strict, which are unlikely to be considered conforming for HTML5: * <a charset="" shape="" coords="" rev=""> * <acronym> (currently in favour of <abbr> instead) * <link rev=""> * <td char="" charoff=""> * <head profile=""> * etc. None of those have any substantial evidence to support their addition to HTML5. The headers attribute should still be considered an open issue and producing evidence to support it will go a long way to getting it added to the spec. It's important to realise that the HTML5 did not start with HTML4 and then remove features. It started with a clean slate and added features that had evidence to support them (usually), and will drop features that have insufficient support. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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