- From: timeless <timeless@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:54:11 +0100
- To: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Smaug <Olli.Pettay@gmail.com>
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com> wrote: > The document.load appears to have been implemented originally in > Internet Explorer. Netscape implemented the API in 2000 on all > documents. In 2001, Netscape discovered that exposing the load API on > all documents creates compatibility problems with some seemingly > innocuous JavaScript: > 1) Abandon document.load. In 2009, timeless proposed deprecating > document.load (see > <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494705>). We could > ignore the API and hope the web will eventually stop using it. I do > not favor this approach given the number of bugs filed against > WebKit-based browsers for not implementing the API and my personal > experience with such web sites. sadly i don't have very good filters for my own work, since it's been brought up again, i can easily push this through after I return home from my current trip. > I propose we adopt approach (2) because it has the highest assurance > of being compatible with the web. However, some members of the WebKit > community oppose this approach because of the harm it would cause to > HTML5's unification of the Document-like interfaces.
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