- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 16:29:12 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Simon Willison wrote: >> >> Why not just use HTML directly, adding the features that you need to the >> HTML language? > > I'm definitely missing something here. How do you go about doing this > while still having a document that's technically HTML 4? You don't. You make it HTML 4.2 or whatever. > Are you talking about adding brand new tags and attributes, then > accessing them via the DOM and using JavaScript to cause them to behave > in the way they are meant to? Yep, for IE. And have browsers like Opera and Mozilla simply support them natively. > I'm assuming that the intention is backwards compatibility with current > browsers. I may well have missed something big (I only just subscribed > to the list) so please point me in the right direction if I need to > catch up. See http://whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/ -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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