[XHTML-Role] Remove role attribute in http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml namespace from Simon Pieters on 2007-09-25 (www-html-editor@w3.org from July to September 2007)

From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:35:10 +0200
To: shane@aptest.com
Cc: www-html-editor@w3.org, "Aaron M Leventhal" <aleventh@us.ibm.com>, schwer@us.ibm.com
Message-ID: <op.ty70gwbwidj3kv@hp-a0a83fcd39d2.belkin>

Hi,

As Aaron Leventhal and I have discussed, we (Opera and Mozilla) will  
remove support for the role attribute in the http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml  
namespace and only keep support for the role attribute in no namespace on  
elements in the http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml namespace. Therefore we  
suggest to update the spec accordingly.

Suggested spec changes:

   * Remove the second list item from the document conformance criteria.
     (Note that it is inappropriate to require a namespace *declaration* --
     it should be permissable to build up a DOM using scripting and DOM
     APIs with the correct namespaces but no namespace declarations.)

   * Remove the host language conformance class. The only host language
     that this Module will apply to is XHTML 1.1.

Cheers,
-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software

Received on Tuesday, 25 September 2007 17:36:02 UTC