- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 12:37:03 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Jonas Sicking wrote: > > > > > Try the following markup in firefox: > > > > > > > > > > <map name="foo"></map> > > > > > <map name="foo"> > > > > > <area shape=circle coords="10,10,10" href="http://www.mozilla.com"> > > > > > </map> > > > > > <img src="http://www.mozilla.org/images/feature-logos1.png" > > > > > usemap="#foo" width="20" height="20"> > > > > > > > > This only seems to occur in quirks mode, not in standards mode. But > > > > neither > > > > Opera, Safari or IE8 have the same behaviour. Additionally, the site > > > > reported in the bug you mentioned no longer suffers from the bug. > > > > Therefore, > > > > it doesn't appear to be necessary that we should require that behaviour. > > > > > > Ah, it does indeed only happen in quirks mode (ugh, i hate it when quirks > > > mode things spread into code that I work on ;) ). If no other browser is > > > doing it in standards mode either I'm more than happy to not have it in > > > the spec. > > > > The spec is including quirks-mode requirements; do other browsers do it in > > quirks mode? > > As I already said above, "neither Opera, Safari or IE8 have the same > behaviour." I tested both quirks and standards mode. In that case, it truly seems like something where Gecko should just be simplified. Jonas: are there pages that depend on this? If we could remove that quirk, that'd be awesome... -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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