- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 20:51:35 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
Lachlan Hunt wrote: >> If something is implemented and used on the Web, it should stay in the >> HTML spec. Mark as deprecated if you want, but don't pretend that >> mistakes of the past will disappear if you remove them from the spec. >> >> Implementations are still going to need to implement these features. > > This discussion has nothing to do with what will be specified for > implementations to support, this is just about what is considered > conforming for documents. > > But, what I said still applies implementation requirements in general as > well. For instance, support for IE's <t:video> or WebTV's <audioscope> > elements probably won't be required because there's very little evidence > (if any) to show that they're needed. The difference here being that <t:video> and <audioscope> were not part of the original HTML 4.1 spec, so it's not a case of removing them from the spec in the first place (whereas that's the case with id/headers). P -- Patrick H. Lauke ______________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com ______________________________________________________________ Co-lead, Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________ Take it to the streets ... join the WaSP Street Team http://streetteam.webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________
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