- From: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:04:21 -0400
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On 04/13/2010 03:02 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Maciej Stachowiak<mjs@apple.com> wrote: >> >> On Apr 12, 2010, at 10:12 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >>>> >>>> On Apr 8, 2010, at 2:13 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Jonas Sicking wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Ian, what was the reason for keeping the .profile attribute in the >>>>>> HTML5 spec? >>>>> >>>>> Matching implementations. >>>>> >>>>>> If implementations indicate that they are willing to remove it, >>>>>> would you remove it from the spec? >>>>> >>>>> As with everything, absolutely. >>>> >>>> It seems to me like the current draft text is largely acceptable, except >>>> possibly the issue of the DOM API. >>>> >>>> Ian: are you willing to remove the DOM API for now, or would you >>>> strongly prefer to keep it until we have more data on the compat impact? >>> >>> I'm happy to remove it if browser vendors remove support. My only concern >>> is with removing it but having all the browsers continue to support it. I >>> understand there's a patch for Mozilla to remove it already? If so, then >>> that's enough for me. >> >> Mozilla patch is here: >> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518110#c2> >> >> My expectation is that the WebKit project would be willing to remove it if >> Mozilla successfully removes it and does not find serious compat problems. > > Yup, the patch is ready and I expect it to get reviewed and landed any > day with no objections. Ian, given that the patch is ready, are you ready to remove this text? > Of course, there's a matter of how long we'll want to wait before we > conclude that there are no compat problems. Though I'm sure enough > that there won't be enough compat problems to revert the change, that > I'm prepared to offer to eat my hat if there are. Not because I'm sure > that no one specifies an @profile attribute, but because I don't see > that those pages would use the IDL attribute. Or break if the IDL > attribute is removed. > > / Jonas - Sam Ruby
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