- From: Dean Edwards <dean@edwards.name>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 00:48:18 +0100
Peter-Paul Koch wrote: > Because I want to start using it right away instead of in five years > (at which date it won't be supported by you-know-which-browser, which > will probably still have a large market share, and at which date > there will be some incompatibilities between browsers that do support > the specification). > > In any case, the whole case of access to custom elements needs extra > research. In the long run, IE Windows support is most important, and > I think we've got it. > you can fool IE into recognising new HTML elements by doing things like this: http://dean.edwards.name/my/abbr-cadabra.html this can be achieved in javascript by creating a namespace in memory using: document.namespaces.add(..); (using javascript) you can replace the unrecognised elements with a namespaced version. i use this technique here: http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/src/?ie7-html by using a bit of javascript you can fix the DOM pretty good. let me know if you want to see a more generic fix. -dean
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