- From: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:52:21 -0600
- To: Jeroen van der Gun <noreplytopreventspam@blijbol.nl>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Jeroen van der Gun <noreplytopreventspam@blijbol.nl> wrote: > Hello folks, > > This proposal lists three reasons for the change. I'd like to point > out that I discovered that one of them, the technical failure in IE6 > and IE7, is actually invalid. > > The problem is about styles getting leaked to the parent. By putting > the figure or details element inside a div element, the closing tag of > the div effectively solves the problem. Since this div needs to exist > anyway to be able to style the figure or details element (since > unknown elements cannot be styled in IE), the only way this problem > can occur is if the dd or dt element is styled, but the figure or > details element is not. So in reality this IE bug will rarely occur, > and even if it does, it is extremely easy to solve. > > You can read more about this at my blog (test demonstration included): > http://blog.jeroenvandergun.nl/7-html5-figure-and-details-do-not-break-in-ie > > Please take this into consideration before changing the HTML5 specification. > > Jeroen van der Gun > > > Jeroen, it is a clever find, and it's a relief to see a solution that doesn't require JavaScript. It doesn't remove my concerns, but like I said, it's nice to see a non-JS solution. Shelley
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