On Aug 23, 2007, at 3:43 PM, John Foliot wrote:
* Is Maciej Stachowiak correct when he states, "This feature is
underspecified in HTML4, and not implemented by IE. It is also
likely
to be dropped in HTML5 and may be removed from Mozilla and Opera
as a
result." [http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15032]
I accept "underspecified" and "likely to be dropped" as his opinion,
and as far as I know he's correct that it's not implemented by IE.
Fair enough, but by reading this, there is no indication that it is
opinion,
and is further clouded by the fact that he is making a projection
regarding
2 browser's "future" implementation/non-implementation, even though
he does
not work for nor speak for either. Failing to recognize that this
is a
problem is of concern.
This isn't my advice to the WebKit developers, this is my comment on a
bug report *as* a WebKit developer.
Is it wrong for implementors to look at past specs, other
implementations, or the ongoing web standards process in making
decisions on what to implement? In fact, is it even a matter that
should be discussed on a bunch of web standards mailing lists, rather
than in the bug tracker?
Regards,
Maciej
