- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:21:35 +0200
- To: "Toby Inkster" <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Cc: "Jeremy Keith" <jeremy@adactio.com>, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:12:51 +0200, Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk> wrote: > On 14 Sep 2009, at 12:38, Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> One thing I'm afraid of is that if people start using <details> >> before implementations are ready is that implementations can no >> longer provide the functionality of <details> natively. From that >> perspective I'm sort of happy authors cannot use it yet. > > I take it you mean that if people start implementing the show/hide > functionality of <details> in Javascript, this would interfere with > native show/hide functionality? Right. > This would be a reason to add <script implements> to HTML5. The HTML5 > documentation would define a URI that represents the functionality of > the <details> element, say: [...] The design of this construct does not seem resilient against the copy-and-paste cargo-cult pattern. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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