- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:55:39 +0200
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 08:30:28 +0200, Adam Barth <w3c at adambarth.com> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Robert O'Callahan > <robert at ocallahan.org> wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Robert O'Callahan >> <robert at ocallahan.org> >> wrote: >>> Wouldn't you consider the interoperability benefits to the Web >>> platform? >> >> Not to mention the benefit of simplifying the platform a tiny bit by >> removing a feature which mostly duplicates another much more well-known >> feature. > > I'm all for interoperability, but who's going to twist Microsoft's arm > to remove the feature from IE? If nobody else supports it they might remove it too. Maybe hidden behind people using a standards DOCTYPE, but that is something at least. > As far as simplifying the platform, innerText is but one grain of sand > on the beach. There's not quite that many APIs :-) I personally think it's worth it to try cut down on legacy features when we can. Even if it's only one feature at a time. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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