- From: Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:44:04 -0700
- To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>, Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
- CC: Jon Gunderson <jongund@uiuc.edu>, Aaron M Leventhal <aleventh@us.ibm.com>, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>, Marc Silbey <marcsil@windows.microsoft.com>, David Poehlman <poehlman1@comcast.net>, "www-archive@w3.org" <www-archive@w3.org>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
Simon Pieters [mailto:simonp@opera.com] wrote: > On 10/03/2008, Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com> wrote: >> I think that the only issue is the addition of camel-cased DOM >> properties that directly expose the ARIA properties. Has anyone run >> across any others? > >More specifically http://annevankesteren.nl/2008/03/ie8-bad > >Please ask if there's something that is unclear from those points. Actually, Anne's post was not very clear about the ARIA point as well as others. >I'll try to clarify the last two bullet points specifically: > ><meta> Switch: Documents without a doctype or with a quirky doctype should >force quirks mode in IE8 even if the HTTP header or the meta tag says IE=7 >(or 8 or edge etc.), otherwise if authors create pages that use the meta >but no doctype or a quirky doctype and only test in IE8, those pages would >expect standards mode but get quirks mode in other browsers (including >IE7). Yeah, I see that, and I've been thinking about that very issue. Not clear to me if Opera is happy if we simply make it so a standards-mode DOCTYPE is necessary, as some of the invective is still demanding removal of IE7 compatibility altogether. >Parsing (dropping attributes): In IE7, given the markup "<a href>" or >"<img src>", the href and the src attributes would not be added to the DOM >like other attributes would (and should per HTML5). IE8 seems to drop all >valueless attributes if the attribute is "known" (not only href and src). >This is a new incompatibility with older IEs and other browsers, and per >HTML5 authors are supposed to be able to write markup like e.g. "<span >title>" (being equivalent to "<span title="">"). So: IE8 should never drop >attributes. Thanks, this is much more helpful. Offhand I don't know what caused this, a developer is looking in to it. >Parsing (namespaces): This is, I think, mainly about lack of communication >with the HTML WG. It would be good if Microsoft could join the discussion >starting at >http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Mar/thread.html#msg39 Indeed. Now that I'm actually back in the office and not travelling constantly, I will be getting to it. Cheers, -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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