- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:28:12 +0100
- To: "Chris Wilson" <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>, "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>
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:18:41 +0100, Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com> wrote: > That sounds like "we should never introduce DOM attributes again, and > everyone should just always use getAttribute()?" No, we should only have DOM attributes when they're part of the specification. HTML5 introduces a bunch of them, for instance. But with ARIA it was part of the design to not have them. >>> 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. >> >> We're not happy with documentMode, but making X-UA-Compatible work just >> for standards mode would be an improvement. Just like doing IE8 mode by >> default is an improvement. > > That sounds like a no. It was a yes actually :-) As in, having X-UA-Compatible only work in standards mode is an improvement over what the solution for X-UA-Compatible is now. Cheers, -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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