- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 22:33:29 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Markus Ernst wrote: > > I found a message in the list archives from July 2004, where Ian > announced to put nested optgroups back into the spec: > http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2004-July/001200.html > > Anyway in the current spec, the optgroup element is not allowed inside > another optgroup element: > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-optgroup-element > > Has this been removed again since 2004? I did not find more on this in > the list archives. Yeah, this was removed because we couldn't find a good way to get browsers to support it without breaking backwards compatibility with legacy content (which relies on the non-nesting parser behaviour). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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