- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:36:44 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Geoffrey Sneddon <gsneddon@opera.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: > > Both Firefox and Opera currently give any HTML element they haven't > heard of the interface HTMLUnknownElement, which to my knowledge is > identical to HTMLElement in all but name. > > We are unlikely to remove support for it as sites (most notably Yahoo! > Mail Beta) rely upon its existence. > > Anyone from Mozilla able to comment on any sort of intention from their > side? > > If neither of us are going to remove it, we probably ought to add it to > the spec, though I'm not sure quite how we'd want to word it, as to > allow future standards (adding, for example, a "kitchensink" element) to > extend HTML 5 with known elements. Done. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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