- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:28:04 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Simon Pieters wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:26:37 +0200, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > > > and presumably the new attributes in HTML5: [...] > > > > Why would we want to add anything to this list? > > > > I'd rather keep this list as small as possible. > > Hmm. In that case maybe we can remove it altogether? I think it was only > implemented for compliance with CSS2 and HTML4 when Niels Leenheer wrote > a Selectors test suite back in 2006. On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > Yeah, and IE7 did not support this. Killing this useless list seems like > the best way forward. As far as I know there is no compatibility reason > for having it other than that test suite and having it be an arbitrary > number of attributes is just confusing and slightly increases code > complexity and testing. I'm willing to remove it if the browsers drop support for it. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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