On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Matthew Raymond wrote: > > The <altinput> element is intended to be a possible alternative to my > earlier <dataentry> element. > > [...]
I studied these proposals in depth. To summarise for people who weren't there 3 years ago or who have forgotten, the context is providing elements to better provide fallback markup for things like <input type=date>, so that during the transition from no support to wide-spread support people can write both sets of markup. The proposals are quite well designed. However, my concern is that we shouldn't add features that will last for a long time but only be useful for a short time. The transition period during which people will want to support both is short relative to the lifetime of the feature. I fully agree that we should design features that have fallback characteristics (obviously), but I am reluctant to create features purely for fallback. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
