- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:31:52 -0500
- To: "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Cc: Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, www-archive <www-archive@w3.org>
Philip, I trust you brought this up with Anne personally before asking 450+ people to consider this problem. What was Anne's response? I don't see a copy in my inbox. You didn't copy the chairs, by chance, did you? On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 16:46 +0100, Philip Taylor (Webmaster) wrote: > Anne, I happened to be reading your web site today, > and I was disturbed to find the following : > > > <input usemap> > > [...] > > Ian Hickson made two data sets available: 1, 2. Looking through > > several sites quickly reveals that most expect the image control > > to act as a submit button (this is how it works in Internet > > Explorer) and not as an image map at all (how it works in > > Opera and Firefox). As a result, HTML5 dropped the feature. > > Given that this group has not even agreed the Design Principles > yet, let alone started to make firm decisions concerning the > HTML 5 Specification, is it not somewhat irresponsible of you > to make a public statement that a certain feature has been > dropped from HTML 5 ? > > Philip TAYLOR -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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