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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12781 --- Comment #1 from Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3cbug@gmail.com> 2011-06-24 21:27:39 UTC --- Hixie has already considered and rejected this idea elsewhere: """ During the transition period, I agree that it would be convenient to use maxlength="" and size="". And so go ahead and do so. The useful transition period won't be very long. By the time validators have caught up with the new rules, it won't be necessary any more. So in the spec, I've just gone ahead and specced the end game. """ http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2011-May/031766.html However, it seems to me that the useful transition period will be a matter of years -- how long until IE9 market share isn't worth worrying about? On the other hand, validators can be updated very quickly when the spec changes, to the tune of days. At most, this kind of combination should be obsolete but conforming, like other harmless legacy shims (<a name>, etc.). Authors should be warned that the attribute will have no effect in browsers that implement the type properly, but IMO they shouldn't be told it's an error. -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.
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