- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 18:56:14 -0500
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Aryeh Gregor<Simetrical+w3c at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Tab Atkins Jr.<jackalmage at gmail.com> wrote: >> <script src> is the way it is. ?It's inconsistent, but that's how >> generations of browsers have worked. ?Trying to change it in the way >> you suggest not only doesn't work in legacy browsers, it *actively >> breaks* pages in those browsers. ?It is simply *not* something that >> would work unless you did a complete reboot with a purposefully >> incompatible language - that was tried with XHTML2, and that spec is >> dead now. ?We're simply going to have to live with the warts of >> earlier HTML > > This logic says we shouldn't remove existing features that current > websites depend on, but it doesn't prevent us from introducing new > features to improve consistency in the long term. ?Authors shouldn't > use the features (e.g., src= on <style>) as long as there are some > browsers that don't support them, of course, but eventually they > should be usable. ?It wouldn't really allow you to do anything you > couldn't do already, but the same is true for plenty of HTML 5 > features. I agree; I apologize for implying otherwise. ~TJ
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