- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 09:50:49 +0100
- To: "Sanjoy Pal" <sanjoy.pal@samsung.com>, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: whatwg@whatwg.org
On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 07:24:31 +0100, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Nov 2014, Sanjoy Pal wrote: >> >> As per specification [1][2], <menuitem> should not have end tag, but few >> websites uses <menuitem>Some markup</menuitem> which resulted in broken >> sites[3][4]. >> >> Firefox allows <menuitem>Some markup</menuitem>. So, we are wondering if >> specification can be modified to allow <menuitem>Some markup</menuitem> >> for backward compatibility. > > Do we know how many sites are affected? > > As I see it there's basically three choices -- in my order of preference, > they would be: > > - break the sites: if there aren't many, and especially if they can be > evangelised to avoid these mistakes, then we should just do that > > - rename <menuitem> to something else, like <command>: this would be > unfortunate, since the feedback from Mozilla a few years ago was that > they'd rather have <menuitem> than <command>, and it would also mean some > parser churn, which is always bad, but it would probably be reasonably > safe to do if we can find a good replacement element name > > - change <menuitem>'s semantics so that the label comes from the > element's > textContents instead of a label="" attribute (and charge the parser > accordingly): not sure how compatible this would be; it has numerous > disadvantages, too, like making people think they can put markup in the > element (look at the Apple page for an example), which wouldn't work > > There may be other options that aren't immediately coming to mind. - Make the end tag optional and have <menuitem>, <menu> and <hr> generate implied </menuitem> end tags. (Maybe other tags like <li> and <p> can also imply </menuitem>.) The label attribute be honored if specified, otherwise use the textContent with leading and trailing whitespace trimmed. This would allow either syntax unless I'm missing something. -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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