- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 22:47:55 +0100
- To: "Maciej Stachowiak" <mjs@apple.com>, "Bjoern Hoehrmann" <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: "DOM mailing list" <www-dom@w3.org>
On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 22:38:48 +0100, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote: >> I also note that we have not yet heard from Internet Explorer, Firefox, >> Safari, Konquerer and iCab developers whether they would be willing to >> change their code to match the specification, or whether we could keep >> this quirk in the specification for the obsolete getAttribute method but >> use the empty string as return value for getAttributeNS which is much >> less widespread. > > I'm a Safari developer. We wouldn't make a change to this behavior > unilaterally. I'm also not sure that all browsers changing at once would > be sufficient, since many users would still be on older versions. I > can't speak for Konqueror, but they, like Safari, originally had the > spec compliant behavior and changed to the de facto standard behavior. > > Would any other browser developers care to comment? I'm not an Opera developer, but I'm wondering why getAttribute is obsolete. I'd also rather have them consistently implemented. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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