On Sep 26, 2009, at 3:30 PM, Cameron McCormack wrote:
Yehuda Katz:
Ha. Maybe it would be worth putting a note in HTML5.
"[Replaceable] is
a quirk of history. Do not over-attend to it".
Ian Hickson:
If we start calling out all the quirks of history in HTML5, we'd
probably
end up doubling the size of the spec.
OTOH calling out features in Web IDL that exist solely for quirky
compatibility reasons, that would help to discourage their use in
other
specs.
Calling these cases out in Web IDL (as opposed to HTML5) seems like a
good idea.
Regards,
Maciej
