- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 03:51:04 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, James Graham wrote: > > Sure. But in this particular case, I happen to think that the overall > measure of benefit, which we can parameterise something like: > (probability of implementation) * (usefulness of feature if implemented) > / (added complexity), is pretty large even if p(implementation) is small > because, not only is the feature useful but because the added complexity > is almost zero. Therefore,, I think it's worth adding to the spec even > at this late stage. Ok, I've added an "accept" attribute to <textarea>, with no implementation requirements and with the semantic that it gives the type of content that is expected (as a MIME type). But don't expect UAs to do anything with it this decade. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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