- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:50:44 -0700
- To: Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com>
- Cc: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, www-style@w3.org
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com> wrote: > On 14/06/2011 12:25 PM, L. David Baron wrote: >> I actually think this requirement is good; I think testing for a >> property-value pair rather than just a property is likely to be the >> right level of feature detection. I could be wrong, though. > > > After seeing many comments from authors here and in other mailing list over > many years, the overwhelming consensuses is to query the support of just the > property. That would make it impossible to test if a property was changed to accept a new kind of value. That seems extremely unfortunate. It also increases the probability of lying - experience has shown that the less specific the query is, the more likely it will be degraded by lies. ~TJ
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