- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:14:22 +0100
- To: shane@aptest.com
- CC: Shane McCarron <ahby@aptest.com>, Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>, Stéphane Corlosquet <scorlosquet@gmail.com>, "spec-prod@w3.org" <spec-prod@w3.org>
On 2013-02-25 18:08, Shane McCarron wrote: > There are elements in HTML5 that are not present in earlier versions > of HTML. To the extent those elements have semantics non-modern user > agents will not be able to faithfully reproduce those semantics. The > section element is a perfect example. IE6 will not know what to do > with a section element. Screen readers will not know what to do with Sorry, but I don't believe that readability in IE6 should concern us a lot. Old screen readers will ignore it, which IMHO gets you exactly the same result as not using it in the first place. > it. Textual document processors such as the Perl module HTML::Tree > will also fail to properly interpret the element. Over time these Is that the case? Has a bug been reported? > sorts of things will hopefully become less important, but today they > remain issues. Best regards though totally unconvinced, Julian
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