- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:50:36 -0700
- To: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Cc: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>, Cynthia Shelly <cyns@exchange.microsoft.com>, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Aryeh > > You wrote [1]: > >> as far as I >> know, longdesc is so consistently misused that no user agent, AT or >> otherwise, bothers providing it to users in any obvious way by >> default. > > Opera 10.10 recently added longdesc support > http://www.iheni.com/londesc-support-opera-1010/ Meanwhile, Firefox 3.6 is removing support for it [1]. I added support for it a long time ago in [2], in fact, it was one of my first patches as a Mozilla contributor. However it was deemed too much code (literally thousands of lines of code) for too little gain. In these cases we generally advice the use of an extension instead, which seems like it's going to happen here [3]. Also, please don't argue to *me* that removing support is bad. First of all, as stated above, I was even the one that added the support way back when. Second, if you think this was a bad idea, it'll be much more productive to try to gather support for the extension than to try to argue in the bug. Extensions is a primary way for us to gather data on how popular a particular feature is. We always look towards popular extensions for ideas for features to integrate into Firefox. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513147 [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1995 [3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/14228/ / Jonas
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