- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:11:35 +0200
- To: "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)" <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk>
- Cc: "Ben Boyle" <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>, "Charles McCathieNevile" <chaals@opera.com>, "Olivier GENDRIN" <olivier.gendrin@gmail.com>, "Sander Tekelenburg" <st@isoc.nl>, public-html@w3.org
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:02:13 +0200, Philip Taylor (Webmaster) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk> wrote: > Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > <image> turns into <img> during parsing for legacy reasons. > > Can you support this with statistics, Anne ? What percentage > of extant web pages use <image> at all, and what percentage > of those that do assume that it has the same syntax and > semantics as <img> ? 0.2% of the pages out there use the <image> element per some non-scientific study Hixie did for Google in 2005-12. You can read that in the source code of the HTML5 specification that handles <image>. What pages "assume" is hard to measure. However, given that all browsers support this quirk I suppose it's necessary. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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