- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:58:02 -0700
- To: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, public-webapps@w3.org, es-discuss <es-discuss@mozilla.org>, Brendan Eich <brendan@mozilla.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Sep 26, 2009, at 3:30 PM, Cameron McCormack wrote: > Yehuda Katz: >>> Ha. Maybe it would be worth putting a note in HTML5. >>> "[Replaceable] is >>> a quirk of history. Do not over-attend to it". > > Ian Hickson: >> If we start calling out all the quirks of history in HTML5, we'd >> probably >> end up doubling the size of the spec. > > OTOH calling out features in Web IDL that exist solely for quirky > compatibility reasons, that would help to discourage their use in > other > specs. Calling these cases out in Web IDL (as opposed to HTML5) seems like a good idea. Regards, Maciej
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