- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:44:04 +0000 (UTC)
- To: benjamin.poulain@nokia.com
- cc: simonp@opera.com, public-html-comments@w3.org, "ext Jukka K. Korpela" <jukka.k.korpela@kolumbus.fi>
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, benjamin.poulain@nokia.com wrote: > > > > > > With my current understanding of the problem, I think this should be > > > removed from the specification or explicitly deprecated. The > > > differences between released browser make the attribute unreliable > > > for web authors. I could not find in the archives why designMode was > > > added to the spec, I would be interested to the rationale behind > > > this feature. > > > > designMode is needed for Web compat. If the spec doesn't match > > browsers, please file spec bugs. > > In the same manner, window.find() is largely deployed but did not make > it to the spec. It seems a bit arbitrary to have designMode. They are being handled in the same way, as far as I can tell. window.find() is still an open issue. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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