- From: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:24:07 -0400
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > Forwarding this along for one of my coworkers who can't figure out how to > actually get on this list: > > Firefox has historically disabled script execution when a document is > put into design mode by setting the designMode property on the > document object to "on". This has been done a long time ago to be > compatible with IE. But it has consistently surprised web developers. > Moreover, script execution has never been prevented in Firefox for > contentEditable sections, which means that the result of putting a > document in design mode and setting the contentEditable attribute on > the body element will not be the same, which goes against the HTML5 > spec. Personally, I think the restriction makes no sense at all. Is there any reason in favor of the status quo other than possibly compat (which can't be a huge deal if Chrome hasn't seen issues)? I can't fathom why it was ever this way to begin with.
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