- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:47:50 +0300
- To: "Bruce Lawson" <brucel@opera.com>
- Cc: "Lars Gunther" <gunther@keryx.se>, public-html@w3.org
On Sep 17, 2009, at 14:39, Bruce Lawson wrote: > On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:33:11 +0100, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> > wrote: > >> On Sep 17, 2009, at 14:25, Bruce Lawson wrote: >> >>> The current crop of browsers all have parsing problems with the >>> initial proposal of re-using legend, which means that details and >>> figure are unworkable in all current browsers. Therefore, no-one >>> will use the new element. For me, details is a highly useful beast. >> >> Surely authors shouldn't use <details> before UAs ship support for >> it. <figure>, on the other hand, makes sense without native UA >> support, since it is useful as a mere styling hook. > > Sure we would. Test support for it, then fake it with JS if it's not > supported natively. Like Dean Edwards' HTML5-hole-plugging script > fakes all the webforms input types etc. The difference with WebForms is that there's a native implementation available, so you can test that the script really doesn't interfere with a native implementation. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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