- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 00:53:26 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > > I'm just wondering how you're intending to deal with <basefont>? AFAIK, > the only browser that supports it these days is IE, but it does so by > breaking the DOM (I could be mistaken, but I think NN4 supported it > too). > > Considering that no other modern browser supports it and that IE's DOM > looks like this when base font is used: > > <!DOCTYPE html> > <title>test</title> > <p><basefont face="Arial" size="3">test</p> > > #comment: CTYPE ht > HTML > HEAD > TITLE > BASEFONT face="Arial" > BODY > P > #text: test > BODY (shown as error) > > I think it should be made officially obsolete. It should be inserted > into the DOM as an empty element, but UAs should ignore it. UAs may > choose to support it at their own risk, but must not do so by breaking > the DOM like IE does. Agreed. Done. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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